The Incredible Human Journey – EP5: Into the Americas (6/6)
For a full playlist of all chapters, please click on: www.youtube.com www.youtube.com Episode 1: Out of Africa www.youtube.com Episode 2: Into Asia www.youtube.com Episode 3: Into Europe www.youtube.com Episode 4: Into Australia www.youtube.com Episode 5: Into the Americas www.youtube.com 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 into 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? There are seven billion humans on earth, spread across the whole planet. Scientific evidence suggests that most of us can trace our origins to one tiny group of people who left Africa around 70000 years ago. In this five-part series, Dr Alice Roberts follows the archaeological and genetic footprints of our ancient ancestors to find out how their journeys transformed our species into the humans we are today, and how Homo sapiens came to dominate the planet. 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 60000 years they colonised …
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