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- S1 E1 - From Caves to CosmosOctober 22, 201854minFrom 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.Free trial of PBS Documentaries or buy
- S1 E2 - Nature to NationsOctober 29, 201854minShared 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.Free trial of PBS Documentaries or buy
- S1 E3 - Cities of the SkyNovember 12, 201854minCities 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.Free trial of PBS Documentaries or buy
- S1 E4 - New World RisingNovember 12, 201854minNew 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.Free trial of PBS Documentaries or buy
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