Great Mammoth Mystery Preview
Preview: Season 49 Episode 3 | 28sVideo has Closed Captions
Sir David Attenborough explores a site with traces of ancient mammoths and Neanderthals.
Sir David Attenborough investigates a unique site in southern England where amateur fossil hunters uncovered giant mammoth bones and evidence of Neanderthals. A team of paleontologists and archaeologists soon discover that the site preserves rare evidence of the extinct beasts and early human inhabitants of Britain dating to over 200,000 years ago.
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Great Mammoth Mystery Preview
Preview: Season 49 Episode 3 | 28sVideo has Closed Captions
Sir David Attenborough investigates a unique site in southern England where amateur fossil hunters uncovered giant mammoth bones and evidence of Neanderthals. A team of paleontologists and archaeologists soon discover that the site preserves rare evidence of the extinct beasts and early human inhabitants of Britain dating to over 200,000 years ago.
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How Neanderthals Came to Inhabit Northwest Europe
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Clip: S49 Ep3 | 2m 45s | Stone tools reveal that four species of human have occupied Britain. (2m 45s)
The Mammoth Species You've Never Heard Of
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Clip: S49 Ep3 | 3m | These bones could have belonged to some of the last surviving steppe mammoths in Britain. (3m)
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