The Biggest Estate: 9,000 Years Ago to 1788

August 4, 2013

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First Footprints - S1 - E4

9,000 years ago people in Australia were learning to manipulate available plants and animals to increase food resources. They transformed an entire continent into a fully sustainable estate, until outsiders arrived.

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First Footprints: Season 1 - 4 Episode s

1x1 - Super Nomads: 50,000 to 30,000 Years Ago
July 14, 2013
The story of how people arrived and thrived on our continent. With startling new archaeological discoveries revealing how the first Australians adapted, migrated, fought and created in dramatically changing environments.
1x2 - The Great Drought: 30,000 to 15,000 Years Ago
July 21, 2013
For thousands of years people lived with Australia's strange and ferocious mega fauna but all beasts went extinct during the last ice age. Temperatures were 6 degrees colder; it was dry and windy and lasted over 10,000 years.
1x3 - The Great Flood: 18,000 to 5,000 Years Ago
July 28, 2013
From eighteen thousand years ago, melting polar ice caps began drowning 25% of Greater Australia. And we meet Narrabeen Man, found under a bus stop on Sydney's Northern Beaches.
1x4 - The Biggest Estate: 9,000 Years Ago to 1788
August 4, 2013
9,000 years ago people in Australia were learning to manipulate available plants and animals to increase food resources. They transformed an entire continent into a fully sustainable estate, until outsiders arrived.

First Footprints: All seasons

S1: Series 1
4 Episode s

1x1 - Super Nomads: 50,000 to 30,000 Years Ago

1x2 - The Great Drought: 30,000 to 15,000 Years Ago

1x3 - The Great Flood: 18,000 to 5,000 Years Ago

1x4 - The Biggest Estate: 9,000 Years Ago to 1788

S1: Series 1