First Peoples (TV program)
2015 American TV documentary
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First Peoples is a five-part PBS television documentary program about the first people on the Earth. The program aired in 2015.[1] It shows how humans reached each continent, focusing on various fossil discoveries and placing them into the context of what research has discovered about pre-modern human migration. The program includes interviews with many of the researchers involved in these studies,[2] such as geneticists Svante Pääbo and Eske Willerslev and anthropologists John D. Hawks[3] and Nicole Waguespack.[4]
Episodes
- "First Peoples: Americas"[5] The episode begins with a lengthy discussion on Kennewick Man and what his DNA reveals about him.[6]
- "First Peoples: Africa"[7] This episode discusses the Jebel Irhoud skull found in Morocco. It also discusses evidence of other humans in West and Central Africa.[1]
- "First Peoples: Asia"[8] It emphasized man's need to explore. Because of that need they encountered other peoples. Modern human DNA shows the earliest Homo sapiens interbred with other human species such as Neanderthals.[6]
- "First Peoples: Australia"[9] This program explores the close connections between the first people and modern-day Australian Aborigines.[10]
- "First Peoples: Europe"[11] It highlights the explosion of art in Europe that came with the Homo sapiens.[10]