First Footprints

From eighteen thousand years ago, melting polar ice caps began drowning 25% of Greater Australia. On the Nullarbor up to 100 kilometres of coast was swallowed every generation. The Wadi Nyi Nyi Dreaming Story of the Pitjantjatjara tells of this great flood and how the Ancestral Beings stopped it - possibly the oldest religious story in the world. Similar Dreaming stories are found all around Australia.

In the second part of this 4-part series we move into the biggest drought ever experienced by people. For thousands of years people lived with Australia's strange and ferocious mega fauna like the six metre giant lizard magalarnia and the marsupial lion. But all these beasts went extinct during the last ice age.

50,000 years in the making... First Footprints is the incredible story of how people arrived and thrived on our continent. With startling new archaeological discoveries and art sites never seen before on television, this ground-breaking series reveals how the first Australians adapted, migrated, fought, created and innovated in dramatically changing environments, including the last ice age.