The Incredible Human Journey - Out of Africa - Session 6

We discover the incredible story of how humans left Africa to colonise the world - overcoming hostile terrain, extreme weather and other species of human. She pieces together precious fragments of bone, stone and new DNA evidence and discovers how this journey changed these African ancestors into the people of today.

List of first human settlements - Wikipedia
Early expansions of_hominins out of Africa - Wikipedia
Middle Paleolithic People -Wikipedia
The Guardian.com - Oldest homo sapiens bones ever found 2007
The Atlantic - Early Humans Left Africa 250000 years earlier than thought
Ssmithsonian magazine - Earliest humans remains outside africa-
Newsweek.com/Clues that ancient migration route out of africa discovered near Red Sea
The Conversation - Out of- Africa - Modern humans left the home continent in at least two waves

The Incredible Human Journey - How we got to Australia Session 5

Here we discover how humans left Afirca to colonise the world and our ancestors' seemingly impossible to Australia

Human Evolution - Wikipedia

Homo-Floresiensis - making sense of the small-Bodied Hominin Fossils from Flores

Australian Museum - .homo-floresiensis

Hunter Gatherer 

Shangri La - Wikipedia

Upper Yarra U3A Adventures in History: Aboriginal Settlement of the Asutralian Continent Session 4

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.

History of Agriculture - Wikipedia
Birth of agriculture - a neolithic revolution
An-early heartland of agriculture is found in New Guinea
Torres Strait Islands
History of Australia - Wikipedia

Upper Yarra U3A Adventures in History: Aboriginal Settlement of the Asutralian Continent Session 3

From eighteen thousand years ago, melting polar ice caps began drowning 25% of Greater Australia. And we met Narrabeen Man, found under a bus stop on Sydney's Northern Beaches.

The ice age struck indigenous Australians hard
Australia: The Land Where Time Began
Australian Megafauna - WikipediaAboriginal Australians co-existed with the megafauna for at least 17,000 years