Richard A

An interesting series in an archaeological sense, but a bit over the top in it's effusive praise of what were really only simple stone age practices. All credit to the original explorers 65,000 years ago for surviving and adapting to their harsh environment, but they didn't appear to evolve at all over those tens of thousands of years, and now are given the doubtful credit of having the longest standing unchanged culture in the world. Not sure that that's something to be proud of; more of a terrible admission that this early civilization has been stuck in an evolutionary cul-de-sac. The article on their igloo type stone and mud huts saying that even today they can still make them suggests that they have just stayed static, seemingly without the necessary desire or ability to evolve and improve their basic existence. You would have thought that instead of using the same eel pools for thousands of years, they would have developed canning factories and maybe a fleet of self-drive delivery trucks. In the pertinent hundred years from 1870 to 1970, the rest of the world had advanced from wooden sailing ships to space ships, and had walked on the moon. A few wooden tokens and a handful of pieces of someone else's pottery don't really make for an information superhighway or international trading routes. Sorry, but like others here, I was left with the strong impression of just how little development and innovation there had actually been over all those long aeons, and despite the modern marketing hype, the series was more of an acknowledgement that, incredibly, time had stood still for these unfortunate people.