The Incredible Human Journey

Season 1 Episode 4: Australia

May 31, 2009NR1h8

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 the open sea on the way, and do it thousands of years before they made it to Europe?

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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

Aired: May 17, 2009

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

Episode 3 Europe

Aired: May 24, 2009

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

Episode 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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Main Cast

Tessa Wojtczak

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Info about The Incredible Human Journey

Current Status: Ended

Network: BBC Two

Production Country: United Kingdom

Genres:Documentary, History