Growing up 30,000 years ago

Archaeologists have been trying to piece together the full human story for a long time, but some members of prehistoric societies have been largely overlooked: kids! It turns out these little people played a much bigger part in human history than we realized. In Little Sapiens, a documentary from The Nature of Things, Sarika Cullis-Suzuki learns what it was like to grow up in prehistoric times - and what new discoveries can tell us about the human story.

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