SYNOPSIS:

At the end of the last Ice Age, the first humans migrated into the Americas. Some believe they traveled overland, but now archaeologists are looking to the coast. And what does a 13,000-year-old skeleton found in the Mexican jungle tell us about these people and their world? By draining a deep, underground cave, we reveal the new science rewriting the epic story of the first humans to live in the New World.

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:

Crispin Sadler has been running his own production company since 2002. A trained zoologist and deep-sea technical diver with over forty years experience in television, he launched the hit-series ‘Drain the Oceans’ in 2010 for NGC / Disney+ with 5 series and over 70 films, 6 golds at the New York Film Festival, and Bafta and RTS nominations. Crispin also has written, directed and exec’ed many other maritime archaeology and naval history docs including Deep Wreck Mysteries for Nat Geo, the landmark ‘Battle of Jutland’ for Channel 4, ‘War Wrecks of the Coral Seas’ at BBC’s world-famous Natural History Unit and the new 10-part shipwreck series Ocean Wreck Investigation for Nat Geo International. In 2024, Crispin was recognised as the leading British maritime film-maker of his generation when he received the Special Recognition Award by the Maritime Foundation.