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Archaeologist João Zilhão explains how Oase-1 may have died
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Oase-1 is the oldest definitively modern human found anywhere in Europe.
Discovering Eva of Naharon
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Eva of Naharon dates 5,000 years before homo sapiens were thought to have enter America.
How Mungo Man was discovered
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42,000 years ago a man was buried by a lakeside in Australia.
DNA evidence of the Australian migration
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Archaeology tells us that humans were present in Australia at least 40,000 years ago.
Ancestral and modern cultures connect
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A sense of connectedness is still engrained within Aboriginal culture.
Meet the woman from Tam Pa Ling
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The woman from Tam Pa Ling was living in the hills of Laos 63,000 years ago.
An Impossible Task
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Scientists demonstrate the challenges in reconstructing DNA from a Neanderthal bone.
Just how influential were the genes we inherited from our evolutionary cousins?
Meet Homo erectus, the first inhabitants of Asia
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Homo sapiens are now the only humans on the planet. But it wasn’t always this way.
Israel Hershkovitz at Manot
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Specimens found in Israel reveal interbreeding between modern humans and Neanderthals.
What do we know about Omo-1’s life?
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Omo 1 was discovered in 1967, but scientists didn’t realize he was 195,000 years old.
“The Way In” with John Erlandson
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Jon Erlandson believes the first Americans came by boat as early as 16,000 years ago.
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