Episode
Horizon: Digging Up the Future
Overview
Can we ever hope to wipe out diseases like influenza and small-pox? Will our weather get better - or worse? Is it possible to grow anything useful on large areas of moorland in this country? Diseases, climate and soil structure alter so slowly that patterns in them can only be found by studying how they've changed over hundreds and thousands of years. Dating methods, which slot all the changes into place, are the most important scientific tools for analyzing the past. And the news they give can advise - and warn - us about the future.
Details
- Series
- Horizon
- Season
- Season 10
- Episode
- Episode 31
- Air date
- 1973-12-17
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
Digging Up the Future is Episode 31 in 1973 of Horizon. It aired on 1973-12-17. The runtime is 60 min.
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