First Peoples

First Peoples is a TV show on American national television from PBS with an average rating of 3.0 stars by WatchTVOnDemand.com's visitors. We have 7 episodes of First Peoples in our archive. The first episode of First Peoples was broadcast in July, 2015. Did you miss an episode of First Peoples but don't you wan't that to happen in the future? Please set an alarm and add First Peoples to your favorites, so we can remind you by email when there's a new episode available to watch. Completely free: handy!

Rating:3.0 of 5Total number of episodes:7
Last broadcast:07/08/2015 at 6:17AM

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July 2015

54:42

Europe

07/08/2015 3.0 47 x

When Homo sapiens turned up in prehistoric Europe, they ran into the Neanderthals. The two types of human were similar enough – intellectually and culturally - to interbreed. But as more Homo sapiens moved into Europe and the population increased, there was an explosion of art and symbolic thought which overwhelmed the Nea...

Europe Promo

07/08/2015 3.0 43 x

Find out why Neanderthals, with whom early humans in Europe interbred, went extinct.

54:42

Asia

07/01/2015 3.0 30 x

Discover the ancient humans living across Asia when Homo sapiens arrived. Our ancestors mated with them and their genes found a home within our DNA. More than that, they’ve helped us face down extinction.

54:42

Australia

07/01/2015 3.0 28 x

When humans arrived in Australia, they were, for the first time, truly alone, surrounded by wildly different flora and fauna. How did they survive and populate a continent? There is a close cultural and genetic link between early Australians and modern-day Aborigines; here the ancient and modern story intersect as nowhere ...

June 2015

55:11

Africa

06/24/2015 3.0 22 x

200,000 years ago Homo sapiens appeared on the African landscape. While scientists have long imagined eastern Africa as a real-life Garden of Eden, the latest research suggests humans evolved in many places across the continent at the same time. Now, DNA reveals that our ancestors continued meeting, mating and hybridizing ...

55:11

Americas

06/24/2015 3.0 43 x

As early humans spread out across the world, their toughest challenge was colonizing the Americas because a huge ice sheet blocked the route. It has long been thought that the first Americans were Clovis people, who arrived 13,000 years ago. But an underwater discovery in Mexico suggests people arrived earlier — coming by ...

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02:04Preview06/24/2015