BBC Horizon: Stone Age Columbus (Complete Version)

Stone Age Columbus - transcript NARRATOR (JACK FORTUNE): This is the story of one of the greatest voyages in human history. It was a journey which took people across thousands of miles of snow and ice through some of the most extreme weather ever seen on Earth, but these were not famous polar explorers like Scott or Shackleton and they weren’t adventurers in search of conquest. These were men, women and children travelling across oceans and ice floes in search of a better life and this is more than just an epic journey. It is threatening to rewrite one of the greatest stories of them all. For these people were travelling across the Atlantic from EUROPE TO AMERICA and they would get there 17000 years BEFORE Columbus, in the Stone Age. Last year archaeologist Bruce Bradley went on a mission to France to challenge one of the most widely accepted theories of early human history and here, in the back room of this small museum, he found exactly the evidence he was looking for because amid the arrowheads and needles he found something which by rights should not have been here at all, some distinctive two-sided spearheads that are at least 17000 years old. DR BRUCE BRADLEY (Smithsonian Institution): When I first saw this material when it was first brought out I was astounded, I was shocked, I was absolutely flabbergasted. Here is what we needed. NARRATOR: Because of what he saw a mystery that everyone thought was solved will have to be reopened, for these spearheads say that one ...

Channel: YouTube Video Length: 45m 47s Date Found: Thu, Mar 17 2011 8:13 AM Category: Home Video Date Produced: Tue, Mar 15 2011 9:03 PM View Count: 0