The First Inventors
The First Inventors is a TV show on Network 10. The program has been available since 2024. A total of 4 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in July 2024.
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44:00The First Inventors
Indigenous knowledge teams up with cutting-edge science to develop lifesaving medicines and combat climate change. But to tackle humanity's future challenges, first we need to heal the past.
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42:00Vast communication networks, trade superhighways and sophisticated kinship systems. First Nations people built an extraordinarily connected society on this enormous and often inhospitable continent.
46:00Can 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.
47:00Could you survive in Australia 65,000 years ago" From engineering volcanic landscapes into fish farms, to mastering deadly fire: the unique survival inventions that let First Nations people thrive.