Human Prehistory and the First Civilizations

Human Prehistory and the First Civilizations « Series from 2024

Series from 2024

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Genres: Documentary

Where do we come from? How did our ancestors settle this planet? How did the historic civilizations of the world develop?

How does a past so shadowy that it has to be painstakingly reconstructed from fragmentary, largely unwritten records nonetheless make us who and what we are?

This broad survey course begins with the origins of the earliest evolving humans more than 2.5 million years ago.

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Introducing Human Prehistory

In the Beginning

Our Earliest Ancestors

The First Human Diaspora

The First Europeans

The Neanderthals

The Origins of "Homo sapiens sapiens"

The Great Diaspora

The World of the Cro-Magnons

Artists and Mammoth Hunters

The First Americans

The Paleo-Indians and Afterward

After the Ice Age

The First Farmers

Why Farming?

The First European Farmers

Farming in Asia and Settling the Pacific

The Story of Maize

The Origins of States and Civilization

Sumerian Civilization

Ancient Egyptian Civilization to the Old Kingdom

Ancient Egypt—Middle and New Kingdoms

The Minoan Civilization of Crete

The Eastern Mediterranean World

The Harappan Civilization of South Asia