The Incredible Human Journey
Dr Alice Roberts tells the story of how humans left Africa to colonise the world.
- 2009-2009
- 1 season
- Documentary
Dr Alice Roberts tells the story of how humans left Africa to colonise the world.
Season 1 Episode Guide
5 Episodes 2009
Episode 1
Out of Africa
59 mins
Episode 2
Asia
Episode 3
Europe
48 mins
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?
Episode 4
Australia
51 mins
Episode 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 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?