Europe | First Peoples - PBS NOVA 2015

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People find something amazing in Britain. They find very old human footprints. The footprints are very special. They are the oldest footprints in Europe. Older footprints are only in Africa. Scientists take pictures of the footprints. They use the pictures to make a model. There’s a conference in London. The pictures and the model are shown there. Most of the footprints are children’s. This is a great discovery. It gives us new information. We will understand history better. Difficult words: amazing (rare and special), footprint (picture of a human foot in the ground), scientist (clever person who is an expert in something), model (small object that shows what something looks like), discovery (something which is found). The oldest human footprints in Europe have been discovered in Britain. There are only three other sets of footprints that are older and they are in Africa. Scientists took digital photographs of the footprints and created a 3D image from them. The images and model were unveiled at a news conference at the British Museum in London. Scientists think that most of the footprints are children’s. There was at least one adult, too. Discoveries of ancient man’s footprints are extremely rare. Scientists say that the discovery will rewrite our understanding of human occupation of Britain and Europe. Difficult words: footprint (mark in the ground made by a foot), digital (electronic), 3D image (picture that looks like an actual object), unveil (show), occupation (living there).The oldest human footprints outside of Africa have been discovered in Britain, dating back around a million years. They were found on a beach on the Norfolk coast and are direct evidence of the earliest known humans in Northern Europe. “They’re without doubt the oldest human footprints in Europe and some of the oldest human footprints in the world, so they’re really incredibly important finds.” The prints were first discovered in May last year during low tide. Storms and rough seas had eroded the sand at Happisburgh to reveal hollows resembling human footprints. They recorded the surface using photogrammetry, a technique which can stitch together digital photographs to create a permanent record and 3D image of the imprint. The images and model were unveiled at a news conference at the British Museum in London. “The spread of footprint size gives us an indication that we have children, a number of children and then probably some adults there with at least one, probably male.” Discoveries of ancient man footprints are extremely rare. The Happisburgh ones are the only ones of this age in Europe. There are only three other sets that are older and they are in Africa. Scientists now say the discovery will rewrite our understanding of human occupation of Britain and Europe. “This suggests that these people indeed had greater capabilities than we thought to expand really to the edge of the inhabited world of that time.” Difficult words: resemble (be similar to), stitch (put), unveil (show). First Peoples,first people documentary,first peopeles europe,history channel documentary,pbs nova documentary,hbo documentary first peoples first peoples pbs first people on earth first peoples asia first peoples africa first peoples americas first peoples europe first people in north america first peoples australia first people on earth documentary