The First Inventors - Season 1

Season 1
Episodes

Design To Survive
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.

Science of Story
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.

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

Navigating the Future
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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