History of Our World
Podcast History of Our World: 2 the Dawn of Man
Podcast thoroughly discusses the theory of evolution in an episode that is informative and clever. [19:06]
Other
Lucid Memes: The Neolithic Revolution, Part I
Watch a video regarding the Neolithic Revolution, or the period of history where humans developed from a hunter-gatherer system to more urbanized communities. [9:59]
Other
Study.com: The Neolithic Agricultural Revolution
In this brief video you will learn about the Neolithic Agricultural Revolution, otherwise known as the period in history of the development of humankind from hunter-gatherer systems into more urbanized communities. [2:11]
Tom Richey
Tom Richey: The Stone Age (World History)
World History video introducing the Stone Age featuring Tom Richey in narration. Compares and contrasts the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic periods. [11:28]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Tree of Life: Human Prehistory 101 Part 1: Out of (Eastern) Africa
Second in a series of videos that introduces human prehistory, this video describes how our human ancestors spread throughout Africa and then into other regions such as Australia and Europe. How did they reach Australia so early on? What...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Tree of Life: Human Prehistory 101: Prologue
Award winning video introduces human prehistory starting over 200,000 years ago. Who were our first human ancestors? Where did they live?
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Tree of Life: Human Prehistory 101 Part 2: Weathering the Storm
Third in a series of videos that introduces human prehistory, this video describes how early humans continued to defy the odds and populated the Americas during the last Ice Age. [3:25]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Lebron Asks: When Did Humans Appear?
LeBron James asks Sal about how long humanity has been around in the history of the Earth, as compared to the length of a basketball game. [8:09]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Human Prehistory 101: Prologue
Award-winning video introduces human prehistory starting over 200,000 years ago. Who were our first human ancestors? Where did they live? [4:40]
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Neanderthal Genome
What makes us human? The sequence of the Neanderthal genome has been largely completed. We'll talk about how we're different from -- and similar to -- our Neanderthal relatives.
California Academy of Sciences
California Academy of Sciences: Science in Action: A Bit of Neanderthal
New research demonstrates that most of us have a bit of Neanderthal in our DNA. [1:46]
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Neanderthals: The Oldest Cave Painters?
A red disk painted in a Spanish cave over 40,800 years ago could be the work of Neanderthals.
BBC
Bbc Podcasts: Episode 2: Olduvai Stone Chopping Tool 19 Jan 2010
A simple chipped stone from the Rift Valley in Tanzania marks the emergence of modern humans. Faced with the needs to cut meat from carcasses, early humans in Africa discovered how to shape stones into cutting tools. From that one...
BBC
Bbc Podcasts: Episode 3: Olduvai Handaxe 20 Jan 2010
As early humans slowly began to move beyond their African homeland, they took with them one essential item - a handaxe. It is the most widely-used tool humans have created. Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, sees just how...