Name: Ancient Civilizations of North America
Released: 2018-06-22T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Edwin Barnhart

TV Show · Documentary

Understanding that most of what has been taught about the native cultures of North America came from reports by the conquerors and colonizers who destroyed them; studying the astounding true accomplishments of these ancient cultures.

2018 · 33m

Starring Edwin Barnhart

EPISODE 1

The Unknown Story of Ancient North America

Revealing the truths of ancient North America, which include pyramids, state-of-the-art highways and productive innovators; how the societies seemed destined to remain a mystery due to European conquerors and no written records.
EPISODE 2

The First Human Migrations to the Americas

DNA evidence pointing to Asia as the origin of all human migration to North America; migration passages across the Bering Strait; ancient habitation sites across the continent; why scientists cannot yet agree on the ages of the sites.
EPISODE 3

Clovis Man: America's First Culture

Exploring the very first American culture, which is identified by a specialized hunting tool called the Clovis point; how the Clovis populated the Americas from coast to coast; how some of the Clovis people evolved into the last Paleo-Indians.
EPISODE 4

Late Archaic Innovations

How the creative yet disparate peoples of North America developed innovations such as corn agriculture, permanent houses and religion about 5,000 years ago; exploring the only innovation common to these many different cultures.
EPISODE 5

Poverty Point: North America's First City

How a group of ancient people developed a planned community on more than 900 acres of land to accommodate 4,000 to 5,000 inhabitants; how the city of Poverty Point functioned for 1,000 years and included one of the world's oldest pyramids.
EPISODE 6

Adena Culture and the Early Woodlands Period

The evolution of the continent's first coherent civilizations in Ohio about 3,000 years ago; studying the Adena, the first ancient American culture with a wide-ranging influence; the Adena's conical burial mounds and shared concept of an afterlife.