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ANTHROPOLOGY DOCUMENTARIES: where science meets history! What is more exciting than a good anthropology documentary about ancient Egypt, the dinosaurs and buried cities? By watching anthropology documentaries we learn about ourselves, about the Earth, and about where we are headed as a species. Anthropology is the science of buried treasure. Watch anthropology documentaries from this list. Enjoy!

• Stories From The Stone Age

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  We’re about to embark on a historical adventure as this documentary takes viewers back to the Stone Age. We travel a journey alongside our ancestors as they make the revolutionary cross between the Old and the New Worlds to being us civilization. Featuring extensive interviews with significant archaeological experts and comprehensive re-enactments this is an
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• The Human Sexes

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  Man and woman. Mars vs. Venus. It’s been said that man and woman have different thought process and reactions, that they can never truly understand one another. Why is this so? This documentary, divided in six parts and presented by Desmond Morris, explores the differences between the sexes. From the physical attributes to the mental
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• Flight from Death – The Quest for Immortality

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  This seven-time Best Documentary award-winning film examines the relationship of human violence to their fear of death, as related our subconscious influences. Narrated by Gabriel Byrne, Flight From the Death: The Quest for Immortality explores death anxiety as a potential root cause of many of our human behaviours. Covering everything from psychological, cultural and spiritual
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• Ötzi, "The Iceman Murder"

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  Ötzi the iceman is famous for a man who mysteriously died about 5,300 years ago. Found frozen and well-preserved in 1991, he has become quite a fascination. His nickname derives from the valley of discovery. New information about how scientists think he was murdered has been released since this documentary was filmed. With the art
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• The Hobbit Enigma

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  The discovery of a human skeleton in Indonesia has opened up a bitter debate among experts and scholars of Anthropology into the origins of what is termed as “The Hobbits”. Are these really the remains of a human’s primitive ancestor? Unearthed in Flores, an island in Indonesia, in 2003, the human remains of what was
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• The Real ‘Eve’

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  "The Real Eve" reveals that our shared genetic heritage links every living person on earth and traces the expansion of modern humans throughout the world. The discovery of the Eve gene stunned the world. It seems we could all be descended from just a few females – or even just one. In this telling anthropological
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• The Century of the Self

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  “The Century of Self ” is told by Adam Curtis, who delves into the growth of a society of mass-consumerism. A take on the evolution of social history, Curtis goes into the studies down by Sigmund Freud and Public Relations Edward Bernays while talking to Freud’s kins Anna Freud and Matthew Freud to illustrate his
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• Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey

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  The Journey of Man is a documentary that talks about our evolution, our recent history, and how we came to be to the way we are today. It looks at the Y chromosome, that’s passed down from male to male, and tracks the marker mutations to map our ancestors’ journey. It’s how we conquered the
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• Pale Blue Dot – Wanderers

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  “Pale Blue Dot” is a documentary based on Carl Sagan’s book, which was released in 1994. The topic was inspired by this photo that Carl Sagan saw, and he muses on thoughts about Philosophy and relates this to the science of the creation of the Solar System. Carl Sagan surmises that the human beings and
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• What is Human?

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  Were you ever curious about where human beings came from as a child? Science has many theories about how we came to be. And one of these theories explains our evolution more than a million years ago. Our early ancestors went through a lot of challenges and struggles to survive the world in those early
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