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This Thursday, October 28 on France 5, the documentary “Tautavel: living in Europe before Neanderthal” allows us to get to know one of our very distant ancestors better, Tautavel man. An immersion in the tedious work of archaeologists, accompanied by a bit of poetry as a bonus.
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The skull of Tautavel man, one of the oldest traces of the first inhabitants of Europe. | ©TANGERINE PRODUCTIONS
Near the town of Tautavel (Pyrénées-Orientales), archaeologists do not see time passing. It was here that the skull of a man, approximately 500,000 years old, was discovered in 1971. They called him the man from Tautavel, without making any fuss. For archaeologists, it's the jackpot: these are the remains of one of the first inhabitants of Europe. In this immense cave, they will go back in time and accumulate discoveries of very distant traces of humanity. This episode of Big Science…
