
Series exploring the origins of human life, from African beginnings to Ice Age artists.
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Air Date: 2000-02-22
Ice Age cave paintings could provide clues to our past. Their meaning is discovered by using research into hallucinat...
Air Date: 2000-02-29
Did our ancestors the australopithecines or 'upright apes', flourish because of the abandonment of vegetarianism?
Air Date: 2000-03-07
The discovery of a skeleton, nicknamed Nariokotome Boy, confirmed that 'ape-man' lived about one and a half million y...
Air Date: 2000-03-14
For years, primitive hominids roamed Africa and Asia. Archaeological discoveries have shown how Europe was colonised ...
Air Date: 2000-03-21
A look at the daily lives of the first Homo sapiens found at cave sites on the southern coast of Africa. Over generat...
Air Date: 2000-03-28
For 200,000 years the Neanderthals lived unchallenged in Europe. But 30,000 years ago climate change and the arrival ...