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S1E4:Australia

The Incredible Human Journey

31 May 2009TV-14

Alice Roberts 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?