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Written by: artistharry [10/05/10, 09:54] Action: [ Reply ] [ Quote ] |
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Man on Earth In this four-part series, Tony Robinson travels back 200,000 years to find out how climate shaped human destiny. He investigates what happened to our ancestors when violent climate change turned their world upside down. Humans have lived through violent climate change – both global and regional – which resulted in violent temperature swings, complete transformation of the environment, drought, flood, ice-age and hothouse. While some civilisations flourished, others were destroyed. Vicious and sudden changes to the climate killed millions but also spurred our ancestors to develop new and better ways of living. Using CGI effects and stunning imagery, this series illustrates how climate has shaped human history from the beginning. And Tony asks what our society can learn as we face our own climate crisis today and seeks answers at some of the world’s most important and intriguing archaeological sites, speaking to leading archaeologists, historians and climate scientists. Episode 1 Tony Robinson explores how a small group of our earliest African ancestors were rescued from extinction by the last great global warming 130,000 years ago. The barren landscape surrounding the oases in which they lived was transformed to lush savannah, enabling them to traverse the continent and eventually make it to Europe. As temperatures rose, so they would also later fall: in the Russia steppes Dr Joy Singarayer finds out how the European Homo Sapiens adapted to survive the last great Ice Age. But not all humans coped so well. In Gibraltar, Tony finds the last resting place of our Neanderthal \'cousins\'. Lacking our \'social brains\', which enabled us to trade and get help from outsiders, the Neanderthals starved, dying out in lonely communities, and even resorting to cannibalism. Technical Specs Video Codec: XviD ISO MPEG-4 Video Bitrate: 2106 kbps Video Resolution: 704x400 Video Aspect Ratio: 1.760:1 Frames Per Second: 25 Audio Codec: 0x0055 MPEG-1 Layer 3 Audio Bitrate: 128 kb/s CBR 48000 Hz Audio Streams: 2ch Audio Languages: English RunTime Per Part: 43:43.mins Number Of Parts: 4 Part Size: 701MB Subtitles: None Source: DVB-rip Ripped by: artistharry |
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