One of the best NOVA episodes I've ever seen. Not even a topic I'm usually interested in.
The last 20 minutes is a fascinating look at how humans migrated from eastern Asia across the Pacific - long before, and a greater feat, than the Europeans crossing the Atlantic. There's even evidence that they reached South America.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/evolution/ ... yssey.html
NOVA: Great Human Odyssey
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Re: NOVA: Great Human Odyssey
Gonna watch this tonight. Hopefully, they keep the speculation down. That's my biggest gripe about a lot of these shows.
Re: NOVA: Great Human Odyssey
It was pretty good. You'd think they would up the resolution a bit though. Interestingly, this is the same stuff my daughter is going over in her Discovery Channel home schooling. I think it's interesting how some of the dig sights have 20 people working in the shade, excellent lighting, & incredible labeling and then others have a bunch of foreigners walking on boards across heaps. I think that the sweet potato link to Easter Island is pretty cool.