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  • The Human Spark Becoming Us (Season 1, Episode 1)
  • TV-PG
    TV Episode | 53 min | Documentary

The Human Spark

Becoming Us (Season 1, Episode 1)
TV-PG
TV Episode | 53 min | Documentary
In the caves of the Dordogne region of France, host Alan Alda witnesses the spectacular paintings and carvings that date back some 30,000 years, artwork that archeologists once thought to be the first record of people with minds like ours....See moreIn the caves of the Dordogne region of France, host Alan Alda witnesses the spectacular paintings and carvings that date back some 30,000 years, artwork that archeologists once thought to be the first record of people with minds like ours. When this art was created, Europe had already been peopled for hundreds of thousands of years by Neanderthals. Alda discovers, from visits to sites where Neanderthals once lived, that they were tenacious and resourceful, but they produced no art and employed a stone tool technology that changed little over millennia. The people who painted the caves, our ancestors, were strikingly different, possessed of the "human spark," capable not only of art but of innovative technology and symbolic communication. Alda asks: Where and when did the human spark first ignite? In these caves, as archeologists have long believed? Or at a much earlier time - and on another continent? Written by Anonymous See less
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Director
Larry Engel
Writer
Graham Chedd (written by)
Producer
Graham Chedd
Composer
John Keltonic (music) (as John D. Keltonic)
Editor
David Berenson
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Status
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Updated Jan 6, 2010
Release date
Jan 6, 2010 (United States)

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