A seven-part series tracing the origins of our species presented by Richard Leakey
Over 12,000 years ago why did people living in the Fertile Crescent begin to plant and harvest cereals? What led to early cities like Jericho? Why did people in Peru begin to build huge ceremonial centres on the barren desert coast?
These are some of the questions Richard Leakey explores as he traces one of the most fundamental changes our species has gone through: the shift from a nomadic hunter/gatherer way of life to the life of the settled villager and farmer. It was a change that led directly to the world we now live in - and one that happened in many parts of the world at roughly the same time. But how and why did it happen at all?
Film cameraman Alan Curtis
Film editor CHRfSTOpHER woou,t;Y Graphic designer Peter Clayton
Research JANE CALLANDER
Producer PETER SPRY-LEVERTON Series producer GRAHAM MASSEY
(An edited version of this series is printed M'ee)Cf)< in THE LISTENER)