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Mystery of the Neandertals
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  • Length

    26:00 mins

  • Education Subject Areas

    Science & Technology

    World Geography

    World History

  • Year Produced

    1997

  • Reference Number

    23596

  • Title

    Mystery of the Neandertals

Mystery of the Neandertals

National Geographic travels back 35,000 years in time - to when glaciers stretched across the Eurasian continent and arctic cold gripped the earth - to introduce viewers to the MYSTERY OF THE NEANDERTHALS. This early ancestor had the intellect to survive the brutal ice age as well as possibly the first to derive the human concepts of art and religion. But over a period of just a few thousand years, they mysteriously vanished. MYSTERY OF THE NEANDERTHALS follows scientists to sites of recent archaeological finds, taking audiences into the world of the Neanderthal in order to shed some light on the mysterious final chapter in human evolution.

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