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The Younger Dryas Part I: The End of the Ice Age
A long-form visual introduction to the abrupt climate reversal at the end of the last Ice Age and the upheaval it creates in the world of Hammer.
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Younger Dryas and deep history videos
Films exploring abrupt climate change, human survival, ancient migrations and deep history.
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The Younger Dryas Part II: Handbags, Stonework and a Mystery
Across distant cultures and centuries, similar bag-like symbols and remarkable stonework invite a provocative question about memory after catastrophe.
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Younger Dryas: When the Ice Dams Broke
A short visualisation of immense ice dams failing and meltwater reshaping the late-Ice-Age world.
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Younger Dryas: The New Era
The ice retreats, landscapes change and survivors enter a world that will never be the same.
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Megafauna and a Changing World
Giant animals disappear at different times across different continents, leaving a mystery of climate, people and ecological change.
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Escaping the Lake Toba Supervolcano
A small group flees the devastation surrounding Toba and begins a journey through islands, danger and deep time.
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Footprints: The Hobbit of Flores
Could the small-bodied people remembered as the 'Hobbit' have travelled farther than orthodox history allows?
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Footprints Across Deep Time
Ancient tracks become a thread between survival, movement and the stories later cultures leave behind.
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Footprints: The First Arrival
A foreign shore, unfamiliar survivors and the first uncertain moments of contact after catastrophe.
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Footprints: Escaping Timor
Timor has become a dead land. Survivors look south across dangerous water toward the possibility of Sahul.
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Footprints: The Flash Flood
Water turns without warning from a path to an unstoppable wall, forcing an ancient people to run.
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Footprints: Toba Erupts
The sky darkens as Toba erupts and the familiar world collapses into ash, fear and flight.
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Jarrungu: Volcano in Sahul
Jarrungu confronts a violent landscape in ancient Sahul as survival and spiritual meaning collide.
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Lava Lakes of the Early Earth
Before people, before memory, a young planet churns with heat—and the long prehistory of the signal begins.
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Mars: A History Etched in Stone
Ruins, dust and impossible traces suggest that Mars may hold a history far stranger than the one humanity expects.