Basic Info

First Air: May 10, 2009

Rating: ⭐ 7.6/10 (16 votes)

Status: Ended

Seasons & Episodes

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 5

Last Episode

Name: The Americas

Season: 1, Episode: 5

Air Date: 2009-06-14

Runtime: 60 min

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?

Videos

The Incredible Human Journey (2009) BBC (Official Trailer) (YouTube)

The Incredible Human Journey

2009 1 seasons 5 episodes ⭐ 7.6/10 16 votes

Overview

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.