30. Colonization of Asia

25,000 years ago ... Right at the peak of the Last Ice Age, most people living on the African continent finally embraced microlithic tools, an innovation that had been around for tens of thousands of years.Support the show 

45,000 to 30,000 years ago ... Signs of Late Stone Age culture start appearing across sub-saharan Africa, hinting at long-distance contact between once isolated peoples.Support the show 

Rediffusion La date de l'arrivée des premiers hommes en Australie, et la manière dont ils y sont parvenus, sont, depuis longtemps, l'objet de nombreux débats entre les spécialistes.De nouvelles découvertes, sur le site préhistorique de Madjedbebe, au nord du pays, permettent de r ...  Show more

They were alive from around 5 million to 2 million years ago, slowly evolving in East Africa and trying to become human. 

South Asia - encompassing Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan - is one of the cradles of human civilization, and today it's home to one in every four people in the world. But who were the early inhabitants of South Asia, where had they come from, and what led them to develop agric ...

We often talk about the "discovery of America" when we speak of Columbus and the Spanish. But they didn't really discover America. Think about it: they only came across a continent that was already populated.


So the real question would be: how did ...