Walking with Cavemen (2003)

"Eye-to-eye with your ancestors."

8.3 (9 votes)

1 Season

March 27, 2003

English

Documentary

Synopsis

Professor Robert Winston meets Lucy, the first upright ape, and follows her ancestors on the three-million-year journey to civilisation.

Creator

Pierre de Lespinois, Steven Manuel, Richard Dale

Network

BBC One

Episodes

First Ancestors

Mar 27, 2003

25 min

Journeying millions of years into the past, Winston goes on the trail of Australopithecus afarensis, an ape who took the first step towards modern man.

Blood Brothers

Apr 3, 2003

25 min

Two species of ape-man feature in the second of Professor Robert Winston's series on human ancestry: the gentle, root-munching Paranthropus boisei and the enterprising scavenger Homo habilis. Who had the best strategy for survival in their prehistoric world?

Savage Family

Apr 10, 2003

25 min

An extraordinary new breed of ape-man called homo ergaster has taken over Africa. They are expert tool-makers, food-finders and travellers, but where they differ most from their predecessors is in their communal lifestyle. The third instalment of Professor Robert Winston's series on human ancestry travels back one-and-half million years to explore this innovative creature.

The Survivors

Apr 24, 2003

25 min

A focus on a group of Homo heidelbergensis, advanced tool users who lived in family units but who were incapable of imagination, and their descendents the Neanderthals and Homo sapiens, who came to conquer the world.