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The Desert Speaks

Argentina: Ancient Patagonia People

Season 17 Episode 1713

The travelers stop at the Cuerva de los Manos, where the famous stenciled handprints were created by blowing through a straw-like instrument filled with paint. Visit a site currently being excavated and offering evidence that people inhabited Patagonia possibly as long as 12,000 years ago. The trip also includes a visit to some of the little ranches and sheep herding gauchos.

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Peoples Locked in Time: The Atacama Desert
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In Chile’s Atacama Desert people have lived for thousands of years in a land without rain.
Patagonia’s Cultural Trail: From the Coast to the Andes
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We trek inland to examine a cross section of the Patagonia desert into the Andes.
Penguins in a Patagonia Desert
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Venture across the spectacular and colorful Argentine Patagonia.
Chilean Wines: A Way of Life
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We travel to central Chile to the vineyards that have made Chilean wines famous.
Finding the Fault in California’s Desert
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Tracing the San Andreas Fault.
Marine Sanctuary: Preserving Desert Life
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Exploring the isolated ecosystem of Catalina Island.
Navigating a Desert Island
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Travel along the coastline of Espiritu Santo Island with host David Yetman.
Sea of Cortez: Then and Now
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The famed Sea of Cortez boasts the greatest marine diversity in the world.
Patagonia's Glacial Landscape
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Travel with host David Yetman through the Patagonia landscape.
Sonora's Forgotten River
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Trace the Rio San Miguel through Sonora, Mexico.
Ageless Mud: Adobe Homes in the Desert
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Discvoer how adobe was used in the past and is still used today.
Sierra Madre Easter
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Travel around Chihuahua, Mexico with the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum’s Jesus Garcia
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