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Season 49 · Episode 7
Landed Wed, 16 Feb 2022 · 21:00 your time · 1 episode · 1h 0m
Season 49, Episode 7 of NOVA aired Wednesday, 16 February 2022 at 9pm ET on PBS.
- S49E07Great Mammoth MysterySir David Attenborough investigates a unique site in southern England where amateur fossil hunters uncovered giant mammoth bones and evidence of Neanderthals. A team of paleontologists and archaeologists soon discover that the site preserves rare evidence of the extinct beasts and early human inhabitants of Britain dating to over 200,000 years ago. What skills did the early humans have to help them survive during the Ice Age? How did they hunt and protect themselves against formidable creatures such as mammoths? With hands-on experiments with replicas of Neanderthal-era spears and stone tools, the world of prehistoric Britain comes to life.
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