The Incredible Human Journey

Season

2009

8.2

This series explains the evidence for the theory of early human migrations out of Africa and subsequently around the world, supporting the Out of Africa Theory.

Clips & Trailers

Trailer #1

Episode List

S1 • E1

Out of Africa

S1 • E2

Asia

S1 • E3

Europe

Göbeklitepe ruins discovered in Turkey's history goes back 12,000 years. How and in what way did the descendants of the Neanderthals, the Aztecs of Europe, disappear with the arrival of Homo sapiens? How did Europe's first mother 'Europe' and second mother 'Iris' follow?

S1 • E4

Australia

S1 • E5

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 in to 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?