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The Incredible Human Journey: Season 1

5 episodes Premiered May 10, 2009 Updated Oct 3, 2026

Season 1 Episodes

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S1·E1 Mytharc

Out of Africa

May 10, 2009 · 60 min

Dr Alice Roberts travels the globe to discover the incredible story of how humans left Africa to colonise the world - overcoming hostile terrain, extreme weather and other species

S1·E2 Core

Asia

May 17, 2009 · 60 min

In this programme, the journey continues into Asia, the world's greatest land mass, in a quest to discover how early hunter-gatherers managed to survive in one of the most inhospit

S1·E3 Core

Europe

May 24, 2009 · 60 min

When our species first arrived in Europe, the peak of the Ice Age was approaching and the continent was already crawling with a rival: stronger, at home in the cold and even (contr

S1·E4 Core

Australia

May 31, 2009 · 60 min

Alice looks at our ancestors' seemingly impossible journey to Australia. Miraculously preserved footprints and very old human fossils buried in the outback suggest a mystery: that

S1·E5 Mytharc

The Americas

Jun 14, 2009 · 60 min

How did Stone Age people reach North and South America? Dr Alice Roberts discovers evidence for an ancient corridor through the Canadian ice sheet that may have allowed those first