It is almost universally accepted that the human species evolved in Africa almost 100,000 years ago and from there spread to other continents, but new evidence from Australia and Indonesia suggests a different story. But the techniques used to date sediment samples and fossils are controversial. Did modern humans emerge from Asia? In 1996, at Jinmium, in the Australian outback, archaeologists found a group of rock shelters covered with the earliest kind of rock art
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A BBC/Discovery Communications Inc. co-production
Credits
Narrator, Peter Capaldi; writer and producer, Chris Hale; editor John Lynch
Performer
Biddy Simon, Richard Fullagar, Rhys Jones, Chris Stringer, Alan Thorne, Richard Roberts, Tim Flannery, Paul Tacon, Rosalind Harding, Mike Morwood, Peter Kershaw, Chris Stringer
