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Stories From The Stone Age

Stories From The Stone Age

S1 · E1

IMDB:

6.0
Stories From The Stone Age

Released

1/31/2004

Duration

0h 55m

Genre

Documentary

Country

United States

Cast

N/A

Overview

An exploration of the revolutionary period of prehistory that began when humans abandoned the nomadic hunting and gathering existence they had known for millennia to take up a completely new way of life – the decisive move to farming and herding the ration of permanent settlements and the discovery of metals setting the stage for the arrival of the world’s first civilisation. Explains why and how humans abandoned the nomadic hunting and gathering and take up a completely new way of life - the decisive move to farming.

Episodes

Daily BreadEP 1Available

Daily Bread

55m0.0

Daily Bread begins 15,000 years ago, at the end of the last Ice Age, when the world became warmer and wetter. Landscapes were changing everywhere, and plants and animals were flourishing. It was a hunter-gatherer's paradise. In the Middle East, the nomads were about to change the world forever.

Urban DreamEP 2Available

Urban Dream

55m0.0

Shows the early Europeans 12,000 years ago, living a hard life in nomadic bands. For hundreds of generations they had followed the wild herds, depending on them for survival. But they were about to face a new challenge.

Waves Of ChangeEP 3Available

Waves Of Change

55m0.0

The Stone Age was a turning point for our species. This program examines how the arrival of metal revolutionised the European economy. By the period's conclusion, the seeds of the world as we know it today had already been sown.

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