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The Early Americans

1975 EN 42 min

Overview

A BAFTA award winning documentary. Locations for the film range from Alaska and the southwest of the USA to the Eastern woodlands. It depicts geologists, archaeologists, anthropologists and scientists from other disciplines piecing together the clues to man's rise from ice age hunter to builder of complex societies more than 2000 years before Columbus set sail for the New World.

Release date

01/01/1975

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Released

Language

EN

Runtime

42 min

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2025-06-05

⭐ 6

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 …

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2025-06-05

⭐ 6

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 b…

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