L'Homme de Tautavel : notre plus vieux cousin européen, avec Amélie Vialet

Make a donation and receive a gift: http://don.storiavoce.com/ Among the distant ancestors and cousins ​​of Homo Sapiens, Neanderthal is probably the one we are most familiar with. However, European human history is much older, as evidenced by Arago 21, the oldest skull found in France, in Tautavel, which dates back half a million years. Representatives of the genus Homo Heidelbergensis, Arago 21 and his contemporaries lived in Europe at a time when the climate could be polar. How did these groups live in these extreme conditions, when they did not yet have control over fire? In addition to physical appearance and eating habits, can we know their culture and social organization? Did they have an aesthetic sense and a language? Were groups of individuals governed by violence and cannibalism or by solidarity and mutual aid? In this episode of Les Grands Entretiens, paleoanthropologist Amélie Vialet reconstructs the daily lives of these ancestral humans, while providing fascinating insight into the scientific methods of prehistoric archaeology. The guest: Amélie Vialet is a paleoanthropologist, lecturer at the National Museum of Natural History and specialist in the evolution of the first Homos. On Storiavoce, she presents her latest book co-written with documentary filmmaker Emma Baus: Origines.Tautavel, notre longue histoire avant Néandertal (Albin Michel, 192 p., €24.90). *** Facebook:   / histoireetcivilisationsmag   Instagram:   / histoireetcivilisations   Twitter:   / storiavoce