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The Shanidar Cave

is regarded as one
of the most revered caves in the world

during the time of the Neanderthals
and Homo Sapiens.

In a place where life
has been ever present,

we might find answers to questions.

Questions that are still mysterious.

At that time,

we were young.

I was approximately...

seventeen, eighteen years old.

The doctor taught us.

Many stones came out of the cave,
large stones.

They used explosives.

They found the Neanderthal skeletons.
It was a big deal.

Their ribs and bones were thick.

Their head was very large.

Their hands,

everything about them was striking.

We call it
the tree of life.

Each human and each animal

becomes a branch on that tree of life.

We are one of the branches,
and the Neanderthals were another.

Somewhere along the line, we separated.

I truly feel

that I am sitting on my cousin's remains.

Every new evidence,
that you have about Neanderthals,

is actually showing you
how human they are.

But their behavior
was different from ours.

They lived in a completely
different world to our world.

This is part of the Krapina Collection.

They are around 130,000 years old,

and they are the biggest collection
of Neanderthals coming from a single site.

We are estimating possibly up
to around 80 individual Neanderthals.

You don't have their whole bodies buried.

You actually have just fragments
of each of those individuals.

So that is very unusual.

On the Krapina bones, both cranial,
so skull bones, and also postcranial,

you see a lot of human-made cut marks.

What this is is a tibia,
and there is a possibility

that it was broken on purpose,
that it was smashed.

You can also see cut marks here
and even some other marks.

One of the reasons
you would maybe smash a long bone

is because it's like a container
of bone marrow.

This is a fibula that has
another interesting kind of marking

on the surface of the bone.

They were probably made
when someone was scraping off

the remaining flesh of the bone
or remaining muscle tissue of the bone.

As you would do

when you were just like doing the same
with your chicken bone at your lunch.

When you hear they were eating each other,
you're immediately, like, shocked.

But it's also the question,
"What kind of cannibalism?"

What did it mean to them?

Recreating the tools,
the ways to do stuff,

we are trying to go into the head
of those people,

and, you know, see the cognitive processes
that go behind.

So, what is different is
that we're just getting cut marks

close to the articulation sites.

And what is weird
in the human remains in Krapina is

that you are getting it
all along the long bones.

So as if someone
is actually scraping it continuously.

I cannot imagine, like,
doing this to someone I actually know.

So, this is the famous Krapina 3 skull.

It is the most complete cranial specimen

in the whole collection,
and it's the only one that has a face.

This person, we believe, was a female.

A young Neanderthal in her 20s.

What is very interesting
is that on the frontal bone,

you have a series
of something like 40 cut marks.

There is determination

to do 40 cut marks
slowly and very close together.

Even if they were consuming these bones,

I don't think it was
because they were starving.

It's actually deeply complex behavior.

Maybe by consuming the flesh
of the person they knew,

they want to get some kind of virtue,
something that they admired in this person

that they shared their lives with.

In the ethnographic examples
that we know of,

until recently, people consumed
their loved ones

because by consuming their flesh,
they're trying to take in something

that can continue on to other generations,
you know, it's some kind of legacy.

I cannot say that this was exactly
what was the driving force

behind this kind
of behavior in Neanderthals,

but it's another possibility.

After cleaning
and strengthening the bones,

then I had the pieces,

and I could start to do the restoration,
which is a big jigsaw.

So, the first fragment
is like the easy part.

And then it gets more complicated.

You need patience,

because you have
a very unique specimen in your hands.

It's a lot of responsibility.

Here we have the skull that Emma,
the data Emma, sent us.

We've got an almost complete skull,
nice complete skull, and it's printed out.

- So now we can see him.
- Wow.

Who are the Kennis brothers?

The Kennis brothers are two twins
who are fascinated by human evolution.

Let's see, look at this nose.

It looks a very Neanderthal-like nose,
but what we see is

that the other side of the nose
is very narrow.

We reconstruct
ancient extinct humans.

We try to show people

how maybe the early ancestors
would look like in real life.

- Big eyes, tall face, small nose.
- Big eye, yeah.

You know, like... spectacles, you know,
these enormous, big spectacles like...

If you put the mandible below it,
it looks like... uh...

We were very bad at school.

We didn't read much.

We went to the library, and we saw
some beautiful pictures of Neanderthals.

We see immediately those worn-down teeth,
mamma mia!

- Incredible teeth.
- Typical Neanderthal.

- They use their teeth like a vice. Yeah.
- Vice. Like a tool.

That, we find fascinating.

How a face, an ape face,
could morph into a human face.

For us, what's fascinating
about Neanderthals is,

they've got an enormous, big nose,

an enormous puffy face.

Never in human evolution
did you see such a big, strange face.

So that's fantastic to see.

So, mostly we get skulls.
Mostly the skulls are distorted.

We're gonna correct the skulls.

We're going to make them
complete with forensic methods.

When the skull is complete,
then we apply the tissue thickness,

the muscles on it and the flesh.

We fill it up with a kind of skin layer.

Yeah, you can come.

I hope that a lot of people
look at this face

and maybe look at how strange it is.

They had such peculiar features.

And that's so striking
because the brain size is same as us.

They are as human as us,
but still there are differences,

and that's fascinating,
why are they different?

It's such a kind
of parallel evolution with us.

- All right.
- Yeah, all right. Okay.

And why did one disappear,
and why is one still alive?

That's fascinating. That's the other us.

It is really unnatural
to go into the caves.

These are places that people fear.

And especially
to the very bottom of the caves.

It's very constructed.

We understood
that there were architectural tricks.

Small elements to wedge
the large stalagmites.

All of this is completely structured
and thought out.

For an archaeologist, it's quite unique.
There is no other equivalent to it.

Here we have a thermal
alteration, but it's not the only one.

We have quite a few...

- Here we agree, that's the hearth.
- It's the hearth.

It's the hearth.

So we have several places here
where a fire was present at some point.

Number 38,

along the middle.

This is very exciting
because we can see traces of soot,

thermal alterations.

There is very black soot,
it's red, it's purple.

Obviously, in all traditional
or prehistoric populations,

we know that fire has a symbolic value.

One hundred
seventy-five thousand years ago in Europe,

there were only Neanderthals.

Bruniquel is the oldest construction
in the world that you can see.

The recurring question
that keeps coming back is,

"What are the structures for?"

So more and more,
we tend to see in Neanderthals

a much older humanity,

which shares with modern man
more and more things in common.

And therefore with Bruniquel,

we increased this relationship
we have with an ancestor who is very old.

Neanderthal genes
are present inside many Homo Sapiens.

And I do really believe
that we are cousins.

We are of the same blood.

We have the same ancestors.