The First Inventors 1-1

Indigenous knowledge teams up with cutting-edge science to develop lifesaving medicines and combat climate change. But to tackle humanity's future challenges, first we need to heal the past.

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

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.