History
Station:
NITV (AU)
Status:
Running
Start:
2023-06-15
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Rob Collins and a team of First Nations investigators delve into 65,000 years of Aboriginal Australian invention, looking at how landscapes were transformed, how events were recorded, the use of navigation tools, and how societies were organised.
There is no Next Episode of The First Inventors planned.
S1E2 - Science of Story
Can oral stories accurately store vital knowledge? A bold expedition sets out to prove that the First Nations science of storytelling recorded ice age events ten thousand years ago.
Air Date: 22 Jun 2023 05:40 (CDT)
S1E3 - A Connected Continent
Vast communication networks, trade superhighways, and sophisticated kinship systems. How First Nations people built an extraordinarily connected society on this enormous, often inhospitable continent.
Air Date: 29 Jun 2023 05:40 (CDT)
S1E4 - Navigating the Future
Indigenous knowledge teams up with cutting-edge science to develop lifesaving medicines and combat climate change. But to tackle humanity's future challenges, first we need to heal the past.
Air Date: 06 Jul 2023 05:40 (CDT)