One method of knowing about our first ancestors is by observing contemporary tribal communities who continue to practice certain stone age techniques. Two reporters travel to the interior of Bastar, where they discover how women gather forest produce.
We look at stone tools that span hundreds of thousands of years of evolution. An expert makes two stone tools, demonstrating the finesse involved.
The cave paintings at Bhimbaitka speak of the impulse to art and perhaps reflect a pre-hunting ritual. We see how revolutionary the discovery of fire-making was, in many ways.
Preparations for wazwaan feast in a Kashmir village and an encounter with shepherds of the nomadic Gujjar tribe help us to understand the transformation that occurred when humans learnt to domesticate animals and cultivate plants.
Navratri celebrations in Bombay bring home to us the fact that many of our present rituals hark back to the discovery of agriculture, barely seven thousand years ago.
