Walking with Cavemen

2003 1 Seasons 4 Episodes ⭐ 8.3 Documentary

Professor Robert Winston meets Lucy, the first upright ape, and follows her ancestors on the three-million-year journey to civilisation.

Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

Journeying millions of years into the past, Winston goes on the trail of Australopithecus afarensis, an ape who took the

EP 2

Two species of ape-man feature in the second of Professor Robert Winston's series on human ancestry: the gentle, root-mu

EP 3

An extraordinary new breed of ape-man called homo ergaster has taken over Africa. They are expert tool-makers, food-find

EP 4

A focus on a group of Homo heidelbergensis, advanced tool users who lived in family units but who were incapable of imag

Robert Winston

Himself - Presenter

Andrew Sachs

Narrator