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BBC - The First Eden: The Mediterranean World S01E01: The Making Of The Garden (1987)

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BBC - The First Eden: The Mediterranean World S01E01: The Making Of The Garden (1987)

BBC - The First Eden: The Mediterranean World S01E01: The Making Of The Garden (1987)
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IMDB Rating: 7.8/10 (50 votes)
Genre: Documentary

The First Eden: The Mediterranean World and Man is a BBC documentary series written and presented by David Attenborough, first transmitted in the UK from 8 March 1987.

Here Attenborough focuses on the cradle of Western civilization, tracing the life of the Mediterranean from salt bed to lush paradise and its ultimate exploitation. History, natural history and archaeology come together in a narrative that portrays the changing attitudes of mankind toward the environment. He surveys early plant and animal life, discussing climatic and seasonal changes. The domestication of the horse opened the doors to wars and migration. Attenborough chronicles the movements in both directions from the Huns to the Crusaders and, finally, looks at more recent despoliation and areas of preservation. It was one of the shorter series that followed the phenomenal success of The Living Planet.
It comprises four programmes, each of 55 minutes' duration, which describe man's relationship with the natural habitats of the Mediterranean, and is a glorious portrait of the landscape, wildlife and plants of the Mediterranean. From the earliest human settlements to the cities of today, from the forests of the North African shore and the Middle East to Southern Europe, this series tells the dramatic story of man and nature at work.

Episode 1. The Making Of The Garden

The geologic processes that formed the Mediterranean ocean.
Deposition of salt precipitate through the evaporation of brine. Northward movement of Africa sealed the entrances to the Mediterranean in the East and the West 20? million years ago and caused the basin to dry out. Drilling cores from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean show a 1 1/2 kilometre thick layer of salt under 100 meters of sediment. Five and a half million years ago the Atlantic Ocean broke through the Straits of Gibraltar.
Atlantic fish and other animals swam in to colonise the newborn sea.
Multi species dolphin pod, sperm whales, Monk Seal (indigenous), Loggerhead turtles.
Mount Etna volcano, limestone islands, Malta.
Island animals and plants evolved in isolation.
Dwarf hippopotamus and elephants (now extinct) had no need for large size because of a lack of predators and because of limited vegetation.
Majorca midwife toad threatened with extinction by introduced snakes.
5 1/2 million years ago there were forests on islands and all around the mainland shores of the sea. On the African shore (where it is very much hotter today) forests have died out except in the Atlas Mountains.
Atlas Mountains Macaque monkeys and their social baby minding.
Springtime skies full with birds. Migration to northern shores and northern Europe.
Migration routes established by end of ice age 2 1/2 million years ago. The Martin which weighs only a few ounces crosses the width of the Sahara. Oases are staging posts where birds may stay for several days building up strength.
European shore and springtime has arrived. Wildflowers, seasonal and perennial. Pollination by insects. Birds have travelled to feed on insects. Bee eaters nesting in sand banks in colonies. Spoonbills in Spain, stalks and flamingos.
Plant ways of dealing with summer dehydration. Sage oil film reduces evaporation from leaves and repels goats, proterium develops spines in summer, capers produce enormous suction in their roots and extract the last vestiges of soil moisture.
Lizards. Snakes, Montpelier snake.
High summer in the pine and olive woods with noisy Cicadas.
Crickets, grasshoppers and other insects hunted by spiders, scorpions and centipedes.
The island of Rhodes and Jersey Tiger moths.
Tortoises hibernate underground. Cold winters prevent most African species from living in Europe. Fruit bats in Cyprus cave. Porcupine shelters underground in winter. Rock Hyrax may spread to Europe.
28,000-year-old flint tools of increasing quality over time found in cave in eastern Spain. Cave drawings of horse and deer. Coniferous forest spread as ice age retreated.
Bison, Ibex. Wolf, the first animal to be tamed by man, hunting cooperation.
Wooded valley in Spain 10,000 years ago, painting on cliffs of deer, stags, Ibex, wild bull, people, hunting scenes, bees nest.
Around this time at the eastern end of the Mediterranean people were learning new ways of living.

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