| Meet the Ancestors | |
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 BBC Book Cover | |
| Genre | Documentary |
| Presented by | Julian Richards |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Caroline van den Brul |
| Producer | Ian Potts |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Release | 8 January 1998 |
| Related | |
| Blood of the Vikings | |
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Meet the Ancestors (later Ancestors) is a BBC Television documentary series 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.
A follow-up to the series, Stories from the Dark Earth: Meet the Ancestors Revisited, was broadcast in 2014 on BBC Four.