''Meet the Ancestors'' (later ''Ancestors'') is a

BBC Television BBC Television is a service of the BBC. The corporation has operated a public broadcast television service in the United Kingdom, under the terms of a royal charter, since 1927. It produced television programmes from its own studios from 193 ...

documentary series Television documentaries are televised media productions that screen documentaries. Television documentaries exist either as a television documentary series or as a television documentary film. *Television documentary series, sometimes called d ...

first broadcast in 1998. It documented the archaeological excavation and scientific reconstruction of human remains. The series was introduced by archaeologist Julian Richards and often included facial reconstructions by

Caroline Wilkinson Caroline M. Wilkinson Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, FRSE (born 27 October 1965) is a British anthropologist who has been a professor at the Liverpool John Moores University's School of Art and Design since 2014. She is best known fo ...

. A follow-up to the series, ''Stories from the Dark Earth: Meet the Ancestors Revisited'', was broadcast in 2014 on BBC Four.

Companion book

Notes

*The series was renamed ''Ancestors'' for its seventh season.

Episodes

Series one (1998)

Series two (1999)

Specials (1999)

Series three (2000)

Canterbury special (2000)

Series four (2001)

Series five (2002)

New Year special (2003)

Series six (2003)

Series seven (2004)

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Meet The Ancestors BBC television documentaries about history 1998 British television series debuts 2004 British television series endings 1990s British documentary television series 2000s British documentary television series