It was 40,000 years ago. The young Doi stands face to face with his distant family, a group of dancing Neanderthals. Shall they accept him?
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This literature was used for this episode, among other things:
Francesca Romagnoli EA (eds) ‘updating Neanderthals. Understanding Behavioral Complexity in the Late Middle Palaeolithic ‘,, ” Academic Press 2022
Mateja Hajdinjak EA ‘Initial Upper Palaeolithic Humans in Europe recently had Neanderthal Ancestry ‘ in Nature April 8, 2021.
Rebecca Wragg Sykes. ‘Kindred. Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art ‘, Bloomsbury 2021
Rudolf Botha. ‘Neanderthal Language. Demystifying the Linguistic Powers of Our Extinct Cousins’, Cambridge University Press 2020
Katerina Harvati. ‘Paleoanthropology of the Balkans and Anatolia. Human Evolution and its context ‘, Springer Press 2016
Qiaomei fu EA ‘An Early Modern Human From Romania with A Recent Neanderthal Ancestor’ in Nature, August 13, 2015.
Wil Roebroeks and Paola Villa ‘Neandertal Demise: An Archeological Analysis of the Modern Human Superiority Complex’ in Plos one, April 30, 2014.
João Zilhão EA ‘The Peşutera Cu Oase People. Europe’s Earliest Modern Humans’ in K. Boyle Ed (EDS) Rethinking the Human Revolution, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2007.
- Text and presentation:
- Hendrik Spiering
- Editorial and direction:
- Mirjam van Zuidam
- Music, assembly and mixage:
- Rufus van Baardwijk
- Image:
- Jeen Betting
- Design:
- Yannick Mortier