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Where to watch "First Footprints"
4. The Biggest Estate: 9,000 Years Ago to 1788
2013 - Season 1
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.
3. The Great Flood: 18,000 to 5,000 Years Ago
2013 - Season 1
From eighteen thousand years ago, melting polar ice caps began drowning 25% of Greater Australia. And we meet Narrabeen Man, found under a bus stop on Sydney's Northern Beaches.
2. The Great Drought: 30,000 to 15,000 Years Ago
2013 - Season 1
For thousands of years people lived with Australia's strange and ferocious mega fauna but all beasts went extinct during the last ice age. Temperatures were 6 degrees colder; it was dry and windy and lasted over 10,000 years.
1. Super Nomads: 50,000 to 30,000 Years Ago
2013 - Season 1
The story of how people arrived and thrived on our continent. With startling new archaeological discoveries revealing how the first Australians adapted, migrated, fought and created in dramatically changing environments.
