Catalogue des films par mot-clé
Pierre Oscar Lévy | France | 2002 | 52 mn
Discovered in the south of France, in Ardèche, the Chauvet cave is the oldest decorated cave known to date. Following the first visit by John Berger, writer, art critic and painter, a newcomer to the scientific team, we penetrate the depths of...
Pascal Magontier | France | 2002 | 40 mn
The reconstitution of archeological tools allows us to grasp what the gestures of prehistoric men could be. This experimental approach allows us to see today an Archeulean biface (4 min.), a Mousterian scraper (3 min.), an ancient Aurignacian...
André Targe | France | 2001 | 52 mn
Luc Bachelot, a researcher with the CNRS, has been directing since 1994 the French archeological mission at Tell Shioukh Faouqâni in Syria and coordinates the excavations that are carried out there. The archeological sites of the Euphrates valley...
Thierry Machado | France, Royaume-Uni | 2001 | 51 mn
In Balushistan, a remote northern province of Pakistan, French palaeontologist Jean-Loup Welcomme spent five years finding the fossilised remains of the greatest land mammal of all time, the Balushiterium, which disappeared some 25 million years...
Pierre Fauque, Emmanuel Mairesse | France | 2001 | 43 mn
En 1997, un mammouth congelé est découvert dans la péninsule du Taïmyr, au nord de la Sibérie. L'animal, baptisé Jarkov, est figé dans la glace depuis plus de vingt mille ans. Il est aussitôt transporté dans une cave aménagée en...
Gilles Sévastos | France | 2000 | 26 mn
De 1995 à 1997, le paléontologue Jean Michel Mazin et son équipe fouillent à Crayssac près de Cahors sur le site paléontologique le plus important d’Europe, une plage fossile, vieille de 140 millons d’années. Marée après marée, se...
Thierry Raimbault | France | 2000 | 52 mn
The study of prehistory taught us many details on the life of the human beings who stayed in the Vézère valley, their organisation and housing. But what was their relation to the environment ? With the help of prehistoriens, professionals and...
Denis Gérault | France | 2000 | 26 mn
This film shows the need for an interdisciplinary study to formulate the best hypotheses about the eating habits of prehistoric men. Given the paucity of plant remains, the importance of meat-based eating has probably been overestimated, as...
Pierre Oscar Lévy | France | 2000 | 55 mn
The Chauvet Cave, before the entrance in Ardèche (Southern France) between May and October 1999, the prehistorian Jean Clottes and his team of scientists carried out two majors research campaigns in the Chauvet cave the oldest painted cave...
Jean-Charles Deniau | France | 2000 | 52 mn
Explorateur du Grand Nord sibérien, Bernard Buigues explore la péninsule du Taïmyr sur les traces des mammouths. Aidée par les Dolganes, nomades de la toundra, par son équipe russe et par des paléontologues prestigieux comme Yves Coppens,...