The Incredible Human Journey
History, Travel Documentary hosted by Alice
Roberts and published by BBC in 2009 - English
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How did we get here? Following a trail of clues
from the latest scientific research, Dr Alice
Roberts re-traces the greatest ever journey taken
by our ancestors. Thousands of years ago one small
group of our species, Homo sapiens, crossed out of
Africa and into the unknown. Their descendants
faced baking deserts, sweat-soaked jungles and
frozen wildernesses and risked everything on the
vast empty ocean.
Within 60,000 years they colonised the whole
world... How did they do it? Why do we, their
descendants all look so different? And what did we
have that meant we were the only human species to
survive?
Using the evidence from genetics, fossils,
archaeology and climatology, Dr Alice Roberts
uncovers five epic routes our ancestors took
across the globe and the obstacles and brutal
challenges they encountered along the way. It
reveals how our family tree grew and spread out
across the world, producing all the variety we see
in the human species today - but despite all that
diversity, Alice reveals how astonishingly closely
related we all are.
1) Out of Africa
Esp. 1.Out of Africa .Alice travels to Africa in
search of the birthplace of the first people. They
were so few in number and so vulnerable that today
they would probably be considered an endangered
species. So what allowed them to survive at all?
The Bushmen of the Kalahari have some answers -
the unique design of the human body made them
efficient hunters and the ancient click language
of the Bushmen points to an early ability to
organise and plan.
Humans survived there, but Africa was to all
intents and purposes a sealed continent. So how
and by what route did humans make it out of
Africa? Astonishing genetic evidence reveals that
everyone alive today who is not African descends
from just one successful, tiny group which left
the continent in a single crossing, an event that
may have happened around 70 thousand years ago.
But how did they do it? Alice goes searching for
clues in the remote Arabian Desert.
2) Asia
Esp. 2. Asia. In this programme, the journey
continues into Asia, the world's greatest land
mass, in a quest to discover how early
hunter-gatherers managed to survive in one of the
most inhospitable places on earth - the Arctic
region of Northern Siberia. Alice meets the
nomadic Evenki people, whose lives are dictated by
reindeer, both wild and domesticated, and
discovers that the survival techniques of this
very ancient people have been passed down through
generations. Alice also explores what may have
occurred during human migration to produce Chinese
physical characteristics, and considers a
controversial claim about Chinese evolution: that
the Chinese do not share the same African ancestry
as other peoples.
3) Europe
Esp. 3. Europe. When our species first arrived in
Europe, the peak of the Ice Age was approaching
and the continent was already crawling with a
rival: stronger, at home in the cold and even
(contrary to their popular image) brainier than
us. So how did the European pioneers survive first
the Neanderthals and then the deep freeze as they
pushed across the continent?
Alice Roberts reconstructs the head of the 'first
European' to come face to face with one of our
ancestors; she discovers how art became crucial
for survival in the face of Neanderthal
competition; and what happened to change the skin
colour of these European pioneers from black to
white.
Finally, spectacular new finds on the edge of
Europe suggest that the first known temples may
have been a spark for a huge revolution in our
ancestors' way of life - agriculture.
4) Australia
Esp. 4. Australia. Alice looks at our ancestors'
seemingly impossible journey to Australia.
Miraculously preserved footprints and very old
human fossils buried in the outback suggest a
mystery: that humans reached Australia almost
before anywhere else. How could they have
travelled so far from Africa, crossing the open
sea on the way, and do it thousands of years
before they made it to Europe?
The evidence trail is faint and difficult to pick
up, but Alice takes on the challenge. In India,
new discoveries among the debris of a super
volcano hint that our species started the journey
much earlier than previously thought, while in
Malaysia, genetics points to an ancient trail
still detectable in the DNA of tribes today.
Alice travels deep into the Asian rainforests in
search of the first cavemen of Borneo and tests
out a Stone Age raft to see whether sea travel
would have been possible thousands of years ago,
before coming to a powerful conclusion.
5) The Americas
Esp.5. The Americas
Alice tries to find out how Stone Age people
reached North and South America for the first
time. She finds out about an ancient corridor
through the Canadian ice sheet that might have
allowed the first humans through. Old finds in
Chile though point to a whole different route for
the first humans making it there.
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Technical Specs
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* Video Codec: XviD
* Video Bitrate: 1559 KB/s
* Video Aspect Ratio: 1: 76
* Video Resolution: 704 x 400
* Audio Codec: (Dolby AC3)
* Audio BitRate: 192 KB/s
* RunTime: 59 mins
* Framerate: 25 FPS
* Number Of Parts: 5
* Part Size: 744 MB
* Ripped by artistharry
* Subtitles: English
* Source: DVD
Links
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1) Further Information
* www.bbc.co.uk
2) Related Documentaries
* The Human Footprint
* Ape Man Search for the First Human
* The Ascent of Man
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