The Early Americans

6/5/2025

This is quite an interesting, if somewhat dry, documentary that gives us a potted history of ancient life in North America. We start with quite an intriguing dig from Arizona that was discovered in the mid 1950s the revealed the skeletons of some nine mammoth as well as some flint spear heads that were crafted by the early Clovis population. Using carbon dating. They have established that these animals have been dead for over 11,000 years - but are by no means the oldest examples of life on a continent that was once freely accessible from Siberia. As time moved on and the ice retreated, human beings evolved into more organised and cultivated societies able to capitalise on predictable migration patterns whilst harvesting less aggressive and substantial prey like elk or fish. It tries to re

6/5/2025

This is quite an interesting, if somewhat dry, documentary that gives us a potted history of ancient life in North America. We start with quite an intriguing dig from Arizona that was discovered in the mid 1950s the revealed the skeletons of some nine mammoth as well as some flint spear heads that were crafted by the early Clovis population. Using carbon dating they have established that these animals have been dead for over 11,000 years - but are by no means the oldest examples of life on a continent that was once freely accessible from Siberia. As time moved on and the ice retreated, human beings evolved into more organised and cultivated societies able to capitalise on predictable migration patterns whilst harvesting less aggressive and substantial prey like elk or fish. The film and th