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History Channel: Journey to 10,000 BC

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As an archaeology student, I purchased this DVD to use as part of my research on flint knapping techinques. Aside from the sections on tool making, the rest of the DVD is informative and easy to understand. It would be a good program for high school teachers to use as an introduction to an archaeology or anthropology class.

As a high school history teacher, I definitely include this DVD on my "must have" list. It keeps student interest...enough said? To a teacher, I know that's gold. I have had many positive reviews from past and present students about this one. However, keep it in perspective, it is what it is: a history video. Your students won't be asking for a burned copy, but they will learn from it.

After the unfortunate popularity of Hollywood's "10,000 BC" (a movie so horrible it makes every self-respecting history teacher cringe), this is heaven-sent. It paints a much more accurate picture of the time period, while being extremely relevant.

10,000 BC (History Channel) is fast enough paced to allow students to view the whole DVD, but I would recommend showing it in clips to maximize its impact. Some of my favorite parts include their hunting tactics, ability to survive prehistoric animals, and the segment explaining several theories as to how people "settled" the North American continent.

It's worth the investment to your teaching collection.

This is a pretty good documentary about early man in america 12,000 years ago. As with any documentary dealing with pre-history
hard facts to go on are few and far between, but they do the best they can with what they have got. The theories presented are
sometimes at odds with each other, but with so little hard evidence that is to be expected.
The theories are presented without bias (well, without much bias anyway) so that you get a good picture of several veiwpoints.
If you are looking for a lot of flashy cgi animations, you will not find a lot of it in this film. And what there is tends to
be of fairly low quality. But if you are looking for information, you will find a wealth of it.
Would be excellent for use in a middle school or high school science class, or great for anyone who has an interest in pre-history.

This is an excellent DVD. It gives a broad spectrum of views about how prehistoric America was settled and would be useful in a high school Ancient History, Anthropology or for that matter, US History class. I was impressed by the fact that it gives serious consideration of the Solutrean Theory, although one scientist inexplicably seemed ignorant of the DNA research which has been done that lends strength to the theory.

Great documentary. I bought this DVD so that my son (5 yr. old) and I could view it. Very interesting. This is indeed a documentary suitable for an older crowd. Even though my son liked it, he prefers the Walking With Dinosaurs series. I don't blame him. This documentary shows early human beings and animals such as mammoths and seconds later a scientist talking about them. It goes back and forth throughout the film which becomes a bit tedious for a younger crowd.

"History Channel; Journey to 10,000 B.C." is alleged as being the real story of prehistoric man's fight for survival. The creatures are mammoths, saber-tooth tigers, sloths, bears, wolves and other predatory carnivores. The people are said to be first the Clovis people, followed much later by the Folsom people. They are named after the hunting tools made by flint knapping, used for spear tips, arrow tips, knives, and scraping. The Clovis style flint tool was discovered in New Mexico, but primarily has the most occurrence in subsequent archaeological discovery off the New England coastline near Connecticut and Vermont. The Folsom style flint tool seems to have its prominence in Colorado, such as the Lindenmeier site. This video tells of the "adaladal" which is a spear throwing device that propels the spear much faster by sling-shot effect leverage, to speeds in excess of 60 mph, and creates a great advantage in hunting because of the distance the hunter wants to keep between themselves and the target, and because some creatures were difficult to kill. The video also explores possible origins and methods of migration from Siberia, France, Spain, and parts of Asia, across oceans, land masses, and explains time period allowances for a lower sea level, in relationship to what effect ice sheets in Canada would have on the Americas. There are theories shared about what caused the climate changes and dust storms, from changes in river flow, ocean currents, and winds, to the ice sheet being impacted by meteorites. The documentary has some slow dry spots in the delivery and unfortunately a lot of repetition for the drawings and animations that make it almost amateurish and lets your attention sag. Of course this type of documentary is based upon speculation and theory more than just about any other subject, so about all the aim of the video has is to stimulate the possibilities in the mind of the viewer. The one thing it did for me was made me want to visit the George C. Page Museum near the Rancho La Brae Tar Pits at 5801 Wilshire BLVD in Los Angeles, California. Some scholars say the people of that time period were likely to band together when they met for sharing their knowledge, skills, experiences, food, and their women. Other scholars say they probably knew the resources were very limited and large groups are slower at migrating than smaller groups, so it is more likely they fought to the death, beginning with the leader of the two clans - which weakened the chances for survival of the clan whose leader died. Mostly though, I came away feeling like the producer, editor, and director of the documentary knew much more than they were willing to share, and that somehow they felt it was necessary not to tell me the big secrets, or show me the archaeological discoveries first hand. So I can't give more than 3 stars.

Great for anyone interested in Clovis/10,000BC in the Americans. Great for classrooms/homeschool/history buffs/anthro's/ re:10,000 BC in the americans. Hard to find good DVD's re:this subject but this does! A must buy!!!

We've watched this quite a few times and see something new each time. Quite interesting.