The First Inventors

Season 1

2023 · 4 episodes · 2h 17m in all

Episodes

1. 1

   1. Design To Survive

   15 Jun 2023 · 47 min

   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.

2. 2

   2. Episode 2

   22 Jun 2023 · 48 min

   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.

3. 3

   3. Episode 3

   29 Jun 2023 · 42 min

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

4. 4

   4. Episode 4

   6 Jul 2023