Horizon - Season 39 Episode 15
Who were the first people in North America? From where did they come? How did they arrive? The prehistory of the Americas has been widely studied. Over 70 years a consensus became so established that dissenters felt uneasy challenging it. Yet in 2001, genetics, anthropology and a few shards of flint combined to overturn the accepted facts and to push back one of the greatest technological changes that the Americas have ever seen by over five millennia. The accepted version of the first Americans starts with a flint spearhead unearthed at Clovis, New Mexico, in 1933. Dated by the mammoth skeleton it lay beside to 11,500 years ago, it was distinctive because it had two faces, where flakes had been knapped away from a core flint. The find sparked a wave of similar reports, all dating from around the same period. There seemed to be nothing human before Clovis. Whoever those incomers were around 9,500BC, they appeared to have had a clean start. And the Clovis point was their icon - across 48 states.
First Air Date : 1964-02-04
Last Air date : 2024-07-22
Runtime : 57 minutes
Genre : Documentary
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Subtitles :
- Season 39 : Episode 12002-01-10
- Season 39 : Episode 22002-01-17
- Season 39 : Episode 32002-01-24
- Season 39 : Episode 42002-01-31
- Season 39 : Episode 52002-02-07
- Season 39 : Episode 62002-02-14
- Season 39 : Episode 72002-02-21
- Season 39 : Episode 82002-03-07
- Season 39 : Episode 92002-03-14
- Season 39 : Episode 102002-03-28
- Season 39 : Episode 112002-04-04
- Season 39 : Episode 122002-05-16
- Season 39 : Episode 132002-05-23
- Season 39 : Episode 142002-11-14
- Season 39 : Episode 152002-11-21
- Season 39 : Episode 162002-11-26
- Season 39 : Episode 172002-12-05
- Season 39 : Episode 182002-12-19
