First Peoples
200,000 years ago we took our first steps in Africa. Today there are 7 billion of us living across the planet. How did our ancestors spread from continent to continent? This is a global detective story, featuring the latest archaeological discoveries and genetic research. On each continent, we track down the earliest members of our species, Homo sapiens. Who were these First Peoples? What drove them to the ends of the earth?
- Released
- 2015
Details
Release year: 2015
Storyline
200,000 years ago we took our first steps in Africa. Today there are 7 billion of us living across the planet. How did our ancestors spread from continent to continent? This is a global detective story, featuring the latest archaeological discoveries and genetic research. On each continent, we track down the earliest members of our species, Homo sapiens. Who were these First Peoples? What drove them to the ends of the earth?
Top credits
- Kerry Shale — Narrator
- John Hawks — Self - University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Svante Pääbo — Self - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
- Eske Willerslev — Self - Center for GeoGenetics, Copenhagen