Frozen World: The Story of the Ice Age

What lessons from history are to be discovered in the ice?

From the remains of 750lb mega-lions to the perfectly preserved body of a Stone Age man, the legacy of the Ice Age is to provide us with a clear view into the history of our planet. Now, join experts from fields such as archaeology, anthropology and genetics as they piece together the events that caused the planet to freeze, and how early humans coped with the hardships brought on by the very harshest of conditions. A variety of awe-inspiring creatures such as mammoths, saber-tooth tigers and giant bears could not survive the catastrophic climate change of the Ice Age, so how is it that humans managed to make it through? And what would happen if, as many predict, another Ice Age is just around the corner?