Documentary | Australia: the adventure of the first humans

The first steps of Aboriginal Australians

A fascinating documentary about the arrival of Aboriginal people in Australia, 50,000 years ago, was broadcast on Arte.

While Homo sapiens had still not reached America or Europe, humans discovered Australia. They adapted to this harsh continent and thrived there. On site, traces of artworks, sculptures, ornaments and funeral rites that appeared before the time of Cro-Magnon man bear witness to this distant era. The civilization of Aboriginal Australians, the oldest in the world, has never been interrupted. It spans a period ten times longer than ancient Egypt.

Visiting prehistoric sites all over Australia, while meeting Indigenous peoples and archaeologists, this two-part documentary tells, for the first time, the incredible story of the first Australians.