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Walking
with Cavemen
Begins
Thursday, June 5, at 8pm. ABC TV.
Reviewer: Cpl Alisha Carr
I
have to admit that Walking with Cavemen is one of the best
documentaries I have ever seen. Produced by the team who created
The Human Body, this series uses the same powerful special
effects.
Everyone
will relate to this series because it tells the story of how
we, as human beings, developed from gorilla-like animals into
the most intelligent species on Earth.
If
you are into the whole Adam and Eve thing, this might not
be the show for you, as it will bring a few home truths to
light in a fascinating manner.
The
first episode takes us back 3.5 million years to East Africa
– which at that time was covered in dense rainforest
– when a remarkable species of ape, Australopithecus
afarensis, roamed the land.
The
second goes back two million years and represents a crossroads
in human evolution – this is when brainpower begins to
rule.
Social
interaction and human characteristics we still possess today
are depicted superbly in the third episode, which explores
the world of Homo erectus 1.5 million years ago. It seems
the social confusion and lack of understanding between men
and women began some time ago, and, as this episode will prove,
is completely natural!
The
fourth and final episode takes us back 300,000 years to a
time when Neanderthals and Homo sapiens were fighting, unknowingly,
for world supremacy.
It
was here that human evolution took two separate paths –
one leading to a physically powerful being able to sustain
life in harsh environments, the other using imagination as
the key to survival.
This
is an extraordinary documentary. Anyone who views it will
appreciate the lengths the producers have gone to in order
to create such a vivid and chillingly realistic account of
human evolution.
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