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Breaking the Time Barrier
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Strange Encounters
Four scientists relive a key moment in their discipline.
1/4. Breaking the Time Barrier
Archaeologist Clive Gamble transports us back to a gravel pit in northern France in 1859 to see the first evidence of the Stone Age, proof that mankind lived long before biblical times.
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Mon 24 Sep 200723:00
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