Discover the answers to one of the great mysteries – how did human civilization begin? Journey with an expert team of archaeologists and historians to the Middle East, where nomads first settled and began to build permanent structures.

In a fertile pocket of modern-day Israel and Jordan, a unique band of Neolithic people, the Natufians, worked out how to plant crops and harvest them. While their European counterparts were still hunting and gathering, Natufians built a stable society and developed the beginnings of a complex culture.

Join this fascinating quest to find out how the Natufians invented agriculture and, in so doing, sparked a revolution that would eventually transform human existence.

This DVD is accompanied by a beautifully illustrated 24-page hardcover book. Watch and discover the secrets of cultures that thrived for centuries and then disappeared, and at the same time read the captivating book packed with intriguing facts, illustrations, photography and more.

Narrated by Robert Menzies
Produced for ABC and S4C International (2003).