Professor Alice Roberts travels to Monte Verde, Chile, where in the 1970s archaeologists uncovered an extraordinary 14,000-year-old human settlement – one of the oldest in the Americas! What do these incredible finds reveal about our ancestors’ daily lives?
This clip is from Incredible Human Journey (2009). You can watch the full episode from this series in the UK on BBC iPlayer: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00l7pmr/the-incredible-human-journey-5-the-americas
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