Name: Decoding Neanderthals
Genre: History, Documentary
Released: 2013-01-09
Duration: 54 min
Rating: 8

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About

Over 60,000 years ago, the first modern humans left their African homeland and entered Europe, then a bleak and inhospitable continent in the grip of the Ice Age. But when they arrived, they were not alone: the stocky, powerfully built Neanderthals had already been living there for hundreds of thousands of years. So what happened when the first modern humans encountered the Neanderthals? Did they make love or war?

Director

Nick Clarke Powell

Producer

Johanna Woolford Gibbon

Keywords

human evolution ice age neanderthal prehistoric man cenozoic