SECRETS OF THE NEANDERTHALS take viewers on a journey from their preconceptions of Neanderthals as a dim-witted creature to a complex and creative people, through the lens of a unique, ongoing excavation and a landmark new discovery - the best-preserved Neanderthal skeleton found in over a quarter century.
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00:00Over 300,000 years ago, Neanderthals spread from Russia to the Atlantic coast, until suddenly
00:13they disappeared.
00:14What went wrong?
00:15When you think what's going on in the world, there she sat, under a great mass of rocks.
00:25We come along against all odds and find her.
00:29Our public perception of Neanderthals was that they had no finer feelings, no higher
00:34thought.
00:35They were much more complicated than we thought.
00:39We've got tens of thousands of artifacts that we've found in the last 30 years.
00:45They are as human as us, but still there are differences.
00:50It's made us reflect on what does it mean to be human, how we deal with death.
01:00Perhaps the first signs of spiritual evolution and religion.
01:08You can be very highly adapted, you can do very well on a planet, like we would argue
01:13perhaps we're doing today, but just beware.
01:20You can be very highly adapted, you can do very well on a planet, like we would argue
01:21perhaps we're doing today, but just beware.
01:22You can be very highly adapted, you can do very well on a planet, like we would argue
01:23perhaps we're doing today, but just beware.