Season 1
6 episodes · Feb 22, 2000
Series exploring the origins of human life, from African beginnings to Ice Age artists.
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- S1E1
Human
Feb 22, 200050mIce Age cave paintings could provide clues to our past. Their meaning is discovered by using research into hallucination, Namibian bushmen's dance and South African rock art.
- S1E2
First Born
Feb 29, 200050mDid our ancestors the australopithecines or 'upright apes', flourish because of the abandonment of vegetarianism?
- S1E3
Body
Mar 7, 200050mThe discovery of a skeleton, nicknamed Nariokotome Boy, confirmed that 'ape-man' lived about one and a half million years ago, and the 'missing link' moved from theory to fact.
- S1E4
Love
Mar 14, 200050mFor years, primitive hominids roamed Africa and Asia. Archaeological discoveries have shown how Europe was colonised and uncovered the moment when human feelings of friendship, trust and love began.
- S1E5
Exodus
Mar 21, 200050mA look at the daily lives of the first Homo sapiens found at cave sites on the southern coast of Africa. Over generations these beach dwellers migrated to Australia, the Far East and finally Europe.
- S1E6
Contact
Mar 28, 200050mFor 200,000 years the Neanderthals lived unchallenged in Europe. But 30,000 years ago climate change and the arrival of modern humans from the east forced them to adapt or die.