Summary: Out of the great cradle of Africa came several waves of prehistoric hominid populations, some venturing into the Middle East while others crossed land bridges into Spain. This program shows how, over millennia, these nomads laid the groundwork for a permanent human presence in Europe. From La Caune de l'Arago in France to Britain's Boxgrove Cliffs to a Hungarian riverbank where Neanderthals and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Does a hominid holdover from the Stone Age still walk the Earth? Mainstream science tells us that Neanderthals went extinct about 30,000 years ago, but could a few still exist today? This program looks into anecdotal accounts of a neolithic "wildman" or "man of the forest" surviving in the remote mountains of Russia and Mongolia. Viewers meet an investigator claiming to have skulls and hair...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Traveling backward 35,000 years, this program visits a time when glaciers stretched across the Eurasian continent and a highly intelligent and adaptable hominid species roamed the landscape. The Neanderthal was an early ancestor-or, according to some experts, a rival-of human beings; a bulky creature with the intellect to survive an ice age, create art, and practice religion. But over a period...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010