What news from Neanderthals?
Who were his contemporaries in Africa?
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Reconstruction of La Ferrassie.
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By: Caroline Lachowsky
50 mins
What news from Neanderthals?
How do we know he buried his dead?
Who were his contemporaries in Africa?
Paleontologists share their overwhelming discoveries about our prehistory.
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Let's challenge a lot of received ideas about our prehistory. Based on the overwhelming discoveries of our guests: the paleoanthropologist
Antoine Balzeau
who has just proven, with fossils to back it up after a fascinating investigation, that Neanderthals buried their dead, nearly 41,000 years ago, far from the image of thick brute that still sticks to his skin ... How far will our close Neanderthal cousins take us? But also their contemporaries in Africa, the first modern humans who emerged at the time on the African continent? Who were they? How did they live? Paleoanthropologist Isabelle Crevecoeur, one of the few to work on the past diversity of modern humans in Africa, will share her surprising avenues of research.
With
Isabelle Crevecoeur
, paleoanthropologist, she works on questions of the past diversity of modern humans in Africa and the biological and behavioral variability of Neanderthals.
- Antoine Balzeau
, paleoanthropologist, researcher at the CNRS and at the National Museum of Natural History in UMR 7194 “Natural History of Prehistoric Man”.
CNRS
press
release:
Neanderthals buried their dead
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