The Incredible Human Journey - Season 1 - Eps 5: The Americas
How did Stone Age people reach North and South America? Dr Alice Roberts discovers evidence for an ancient corridor through the Canadian ice sheet that may have allowed those first people through. But some very ancient finds in southern Chile seem to suggest a very different way into the Americas; an ancient human skull discovered in Brazil even points to an Australasian origin of the Americans. Could a route from Australia across the Pacific have been possible?
About The Incredible Human Journey
Title: The Incredible Human Journey
First Air Date: 2009-05-10
Last Air Date: 2009-06-14
Status: Ended
Rating: 7.5/10 (from 14 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 1
Total Episodes: 5
Network: BBC Two
Genres: Documentary
Production Companies: BBC
Synopsis
There are seven billion humans on Earth, spread across the whole planet. Scientific evidence suggests that most of us can trace our origins to one tiny group of people who left Africa around 70,000 years ago. In this five-part series, Dr Alice Roberts follows the archaeological and genetic footprints of our ancient ancestors to find out how their journeys transformed our species into the humans we are today, and how Homo Sapiens came to dominate the planet.
Cast
Alice Roberts
Self - Presenter
Tessa Wojtczak
