Native America

From Caves to Cosmos traces ancient knowledge and cutting-edge science to answer a 15,000 year-old-question: who were America’s First People? The answer hides in Amazonian cave paintings, Mexican burial chambers, and on the waves off California’s coast.

Shared beliefs give rise to governments from dictatorships to America’s first democracy. The hour investigates lost cities in the Mexican jungle, a subterranean temple in Peru, a potlatch ceremony in the Pacific Northwest, and a tapestry of shell beads whose story inspires the US government.

Cities of the Sky reveals the cosmological secrets behind America’s ancient cities. An archaeologist explores some of the world’s largest pyramids, scientists 3d-scan a lost city of monumental mounds on the Mississippi River, and native elders reveal ancient powers of the sky.

New World Rising - Native Americans tap ten thousand years of traditions to fight the forces of Conquest. Successful survival is revealed in an empire of horse-mounted Comanche warriors, encoded messages in an Aztec manuscript, and weaving a grass bridge in the Andes that spans mountains and centuries of time.