The great journey: the peopling of ancient America

Friars, antiquarians, and moundbuilders

Palaeoliths and extinct animals

In the beginning : act 1, scene 1: Africa, Europe, and Asia from about 2 million to 35,000 years ago

Modern humans take the stage : Act 1, scene 2: Europe and Asia 35,000 to 15,000 years ago

Beringia : act 2, scene 1: the Bering Strait 35,000 to 15,000 years ago

Alaska and the Yukon Territory : act 2, scene 2: the northwestern reaches of the New World

The ice-free corridor: : interlude

On the track of the earliest settlers : act 3, scene 1: the Americas before 11,500 years ago

The Clovis people and their forebears : act 3, scene 2: North America at the end of the Ice Age

The bison hunters

The northern world

Epilog.