The First Inventors

47min

Documentary

Rob Collins and a team of First Nations investigators delve into 65,000 years of Aboriginal Australian invention, looking at how landscapes were transformed, how events were recorded, the use of navigation tools, and how societies were organized.

Episodes

Cast

Design To Survive

1. Design To Survive

47min

15th Jun 2023

Rob Collins and his team explore the innovative creations that enabled First Nations people to thrive, ranging from transforming volcanic terrains into fish farms to mastering the art of harnessing dangerous fire for survival.

Episode 2

2. Episode 2

48min

22nd Jun 2023

Can oral stories accurately store vital knowledge? A bold expedition sets out to prove that the First Nations science of storytelling recorded ice age events ten thousand years ago.

Episode 3

3. Episode 3

42min

29th Jun 2023

Vast communication networks, trade superhighways and sophisticated kinship systems. First Nations people built an extraordinarily connected society on this enormous and often inhospitable continent.

Episode 4

4. Episode 4

6th Jul 2023

First air date

15th Jun 2023

Last air date

6th Jul 2023

Status

Returning Series

Type

Documentary

Original language

en

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