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The Incredible Human Journey

Season 1 Episode 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...

Season 1 Episodes:

Episode 1 Out of Africa

1. Out of Africa

Aired: May 10, 2009

Dr Alice Roberts travels the globe to discover the incredible story of how hu...

Episode 2 Asia

2. Asia

Aired: May 17, 2009

In this programme, the journey continues into Asia, the world's greatest land...

Episode 3 Europe

3. Europe

Aired: May 24, 2009

Göbeklitepe ruins discovered in Turkey's history goes back 12,000 years. How ...

Episode 4 Australia

4. Australia

Aired: May 31, 2009

Alice looks at our ancestors' seemingly impossible journey to Australia. Mira...

Episode 5 The Americas

5. The Americas

Aired: Jun 14, 2009

How did Stone Age people reach North and South America? Dr Alice Roberts disc...

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Current Status: Ended

Network: BBC Two

Production Country: United Kingdom

Genres:Documentary, History