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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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The final episode in the Galapagos Islands features some of the “newer” islands.
Host David Yetman hops into a motorcycle sidecar to explore Wyoming’s Red Desert
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Travel through the desert with the inventor of goat packing, John Mionczynski.
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Learn how Tohono O’Odham tribal members are passing down traditions.
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Explore Andean Condors and learn their ritualistic significance to native people.
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Examine pre-Incan ruins before venturing to the skies for a view of the Nazca lines.
