Secrets de Néandertal

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Ce documentaire s'intéresse aux mystères qui entourent les Néandertaliens et à ce que les fossiles datant de leur époque nous apprennent sur leur vie et leur disparition.

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00:00Over 300,000 years ago, Neanderthals spread from Russia to the Atlantic coast, until suddenly,

00:14they disappeared.

00:15What went wrong?

00:16When you think what's going on in the world, there she sat, under a great mass of rocks.

00:25We come along against all odds and find her.

00:29Our public perception of Neanderthals was that they had no finer feelings, no higher thought.

00:35They were much more complicated than we thought.

00:39We've got tens of thousands of artifacts that we've found in the last 30 years.

00:45They are as human as us, but still there are differences.

00:50It's made us reflect on what does it mean to be human, how we deal with death.

00:59Perhaps it's the first signs of spiritual evolution and religion.

01:08You can be very highly adapted, you can do very well on a planet, like we would argue

01:13perhaps we're doing today, but just beware.

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