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This photo was taken in the Yukon Territory. The people from a local community played the part of “the first people” arriving in the North America at the end of the Ice Age. The men are holding atlatls. The first people used these to launch darts at animals such as mammoths. We all had great fun throwing them.

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Me during a break from filming. We had just flown over huge glaciers near Juneau, Alaska.

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Me and cameraman John Brown ready for take-off. It takes a couple of hours to get a camera mount fixed into a helicopter. On this ocassion we were filming over downtown Los Angeles. In the final programme we added a computer generated image of a mammoth to the shots of LA.

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We ocassionally have to film some strange things. This photo was taken in Wookey Hole Caves. We were reconstructing a scene from around 11,000 years ago when a bear mauled a palaeoindian in an Alaskan cave. Obviously we couldn’t use a real bear so we had a “stunt bear”. This “bear” has worked on lots of movies including James Bond!

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Wild New World (or Prehistoric America)

BBC 2

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Wild New World (aka Prehistoric America in the USA) is a six-part series about the landscape of North America at the end of the last Ice Age.

It was first shown on BBC 2 in 2002.

Mixing fossil evidence with 3D graphics, each programme unearths clues to paint a picture of the continent, as it would have looked to the first people of North America some 13,000 years ago.

The final programme looks at the changes wrought by humans since then and the way animals have adapted to an increasingly human landscape.