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This series focuses on using archaeology to reveal how we used to live in great detail. Each episode boasts a different dig site or famous historian.

Time Team

Investigation of discoveries showing that the dim-witted cave dwelling Neanderthals were smart and technologically savvy. So why did they disappear? 

Genetics underpins the whole of human evolution, from our rise as a class of primates on the African plain to our spread across the Earth.

Ancient American landscapes come to life through profiles of paleontologists, modern-day excavations, and visualizations of long-extinct creatures.

Scientists uncover a mummified dinosaur body, then undertake a radiographic autopsy to discover its last meal and never-before-seen internal organs.

Meet the "First Europeans," our long-extinct relation from the Ice Age. We're beginning to see just how close Neanderthals were to modern humans.

When a tiny, human-like skeleton is discovered on an Indonesian island, a scientific mystery begins. Is this creature a human or another species?

Toumai, the oldest human ancestor recorded to date, is a seven-million-year-old fossil that "crash-landed" into the world of the living.