About this season
First Footprints explores 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.
Episodes (4)
1. Super Nomads: 50,000 to 30,000 Years Ago
Aired 14 July 2013
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.
2. The Great Drought: 30,000 to 15,000 Years Ago
Aired 21 July 2013
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.
3. The Great Flood: 18,000 to 5,000 Years Ago
Aired 28 July 2013
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.
4. The Biggest Estate: 9,000 Years Ago to 1788
Aired 4 August 2013
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.