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First Footprints The Great Drought: 30,000 to 15,000 years ago
Episode 2For thousands of years, people live with Australia's strange and ferocious megafauna like the 6-meter giant lizard Megalania and the marsupial lion. These beasts all become extinct as massive climate change hits Australia brought on by the Last Ice Age. -
First Footprints Super Nomads: 50,000 to 30,000 years ago
Episode 170,000 years ago modern people are confined to Africa. But one tenacious bunch races across Asia and makes the first open-ocean crossing in human history. They encounter Sahul or Greater Australia - a virgin continent full of weird and deadly megafauna. -
First Footprints The Great Flood: 18,000 to 5000 years ago
Episode 3Fifteen thousand years ago, melting polar icecaps send 25% of Greater Australia under water. New Guinea and Tasmania are permanently severed. The isolation of Tasmania has profound consequences on diet, language, and technology. -
First Footprints The Biggest Estate: 9,000 years ago to 1788
Episode 49,000 years ago agriculture started in different parts of the planet - The Middle East, China and Greater Australia in the Highlands of New Guinea. Agriculture spread to the Torres Strait but not to mainland Australia.
