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Seven Million Years of Human Evolution (American Museum of Natural History)


Shaping Humanity: How Science, Art, and Imagination Help Us Understand Our Origins (Teaser)

What Happened Before History? Human Origins (Kurzgesagt)

Who were the Neanderthals? What can they teach us about ourselves? (Aeon)

Did Neanderthals Create Art? (BBC)

A Neanderthal Burial (NOVA PBS)

Paleoanthropologist Answers Caveman Questions From Twitter (Wired)

How Humans Became (Mostly) Right-Handed (PBS EONS)

In Search of the Earliest Traces of Mankind (Time Team Classics)

Art of Prehistoric Europe (Rick Steves’ Europe)

Ancient yet cosmopolitan: Art, adornment and sophisticated hunting technologies flourished not only in prehistoric Europe but across the globe (Aeon)

Stone Age Temple Mystery (Full Documentary, NOVA PBS)

When Time Team Found Incredibly Rare 5000-Year-Old Stone Age Tools (Time Team Classics)

900,000 BC: What Can Archaeologists Tell Us About Prehistoric Britain? (Digging For Britain with Alice Roberts)

Living with Gods: the 40,000-year-old Lion Man (The British Museum)

Making the Lion Man

(Making a replica of the famous Lion Man statuette from the Aurignacian layers of the Hohlenstein Stadel cave in Southern Germany with authentic tools.)

Cave Art 101 | National Geographic

What Can Cave Paintings Tell Us About Our Ancestors? (BBC Earth Science)

Cave art: For Palaeolithic societies, art-making was both a tool for survival and a tactile, joyous exploration of the world (Aeon)

Brian Cox Visits Europe's Oldest Known Cave Paintings (BBC)

Why are these 32 symbols found in caves all over Europe (Genevieve von Petzinger & TED)

France Creates Replica Chauvet Cave for Spectacular Prehistoric Art (BBC)

The Chauvet cave: Unlocking France's Prehistoric Past (France 24 English)


Incredible Ice Age Cave Paintings Delight Prof Alice Roberts (BBC Timestamp)

Why make art in the dark? New research transports us back to the shadowy firelight of ancient caves, imagining the minds and feelings of the artists (Aeon)

Explore Cave Paintings in this 360° Animated Cave (TED)

Arthur’s Stone: Archaeologists Uncover A Neolithic Monument Older Than Stone Henge (Unearthed History)

Britains Bronze Age Mummies (Time Team Classic Special)


The Mysterious Markings That Revealed A Lost Iron Age Village (Time Team Classics)