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Europe (4/5)

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Subjects: Anthropology, Evolution, Genetics, History, Natural History

Grade Level: SrH-Adult
Producer: BBC
Closed Captioned: No

Running Time: 50 mins
Country of Origin: Great Britain
Study Guide: No

Copyright Date: 2009
Available in French: No

We examine how early modern humans travelled from Africa into the heart of Europe and what may have happened on this journey to change their skin colour from brown to white.

How did these early hunter-gatherers endure the unimaginable conditions of the last Ice Age and how did they come to dominate a land already inhabited by the tough, resiliant Neanderthal peoples?

Cave paintings, sculptures, tools and music-instrument finds suggest that these early modern humans were much more imaginative, inventive and sophisticated than was previously believed, and perhaps it was these very qualities of ingenuity and resourcefulness that gave them the advantage of their Neanderthal cousins.

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