You’ll hear in this week NRC Today our series Wild centuries, the beginning. One of the narrative series we made this year: perfect for the days around Christmas.
It’s been 50,000 years. Seddi stands proudly in front of her large drawing of a warthog, deep in a cave on Sulawesi. Will the boar help her people survive?
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For this episode, this literature was used, among other things:
Maxime Aubert and others ‘Narrative cave art in Indonesia by 51,200 years ago’ in Nature, on July 25, 2024.
Rikai Sawafuji and others ‘East and Southeast Asian hominin dispersal and evolution: A review’ in Quaternary Science Reviews,Volume 333, on June 1, 2024.
April Nowell ‘Oral Storytelling and Knowledge Transmission in Upper Paleolithic Children and Adolescents’ in Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, in March 2023.
Adam Brumm and others ‘Oldest cave art found in Sulawesi’ in Science Advances, on January 15, 2021.
Chris Stringer and others ‘Did the Denisovans Cross Wallace’s Line?’in Science, on October 18, 2013.
Michael Witzel ‘The origins of the world’s mythologies’, at Oxford University Press, in 2012.
Sally Mcbrearty and others ‘The revolution that wasn’t: a new interpretation of the origin of modern human behavior’ in Journal of Human Evolution, in November 2000.
See also ‘The oldest story in the world was drawn 50,000 years ago in a cave on the island of Sulawesi’, in NRC on November 16.
This episode features music by the following artists: Fralalai, Frodi Fransman, Hidde Meenhorst, Arno Adelaars, Imre Peemot.
- Text and presentation:
- Hendrik Spiering
- Editing and direction:
- Mirjam van Zuidam
- Music, editing and mixing:
- Rufus van Baardwijk
- Image:
- Jeen Berting
- Design:
- Yannick Mortier
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