The impressive beginning of Humanity with Yves Coppens
Channel: Cafe Anthropos
Date: 2023-05-16

Topic inspired by a preface written to the album "All Lascaux", by an icon of French paleoanthropology - Yves Coppens. 

Contents:
00:00 Some words about Lascaux
1:23 Yves Coppens
2:38 The beginning of humanity
3:51 The unique human consciousness 
4:30 Culture and the beginning of man
6:21 Spiritual obsession of humans
6:45 The dawn of a symbol
8:39 Ocher
9:15 Music and dancing
10:12 Sima de los Huesos
10:45 Lascaux again
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The main source: 
P. Lima, P. Psaila, Y. Coppens „All Lascaux” 

Also:
Francesco d’Errico, April Nowell „ A New Look at the Berekhat Ram Figurine: Implications for the Origins of Symbolism”;
B. David „Cave Art”;
G.D. Gierliński, et al., "Possible hominin footprints from the late Miocene (c. 5.7 Ma) of Crete?, Proc. Geol. Assoc. (2017) ;
M. Lorblanchet and P. Bahn "The First Artists
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Some pictures:
Hand axe (Excalibur) z Sima de los Huesos: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Excalibur_(1).jpg This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. 
Lucy skeleton replica: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lucy_(Frankfurt_am_Main).jpg Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. 
Portrait of Lucy's skeleton: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lucy_(30826226995).jpg?uselang=pl Autor – Erik Drost. Ten plik udostępniony jest na licencji Creative Commons Uznanie autorstwa 2.0. 
Yves Coppens: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yves_Coppens_detail.jpg Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. 
Tetsuro Matsuzawa https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:L%27unicit%C3%A0Dell%27immaginazione_(10)_(24341037218).jpg This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. 
Panaorama of Sierra de Atapuerca: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PanoramicaSierraAtapuerca.jpg This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. 
Atapuerca z Sima de los Huesos https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atapuerca_map.jpg This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. 
Skulls from Sima de los Huesos: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sima_de_los_Huesos_Crania.png This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. 
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Music:
Manuel Bolaños Gómez "A Legend Will Rise", CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication. Źródło: https://archive.org/details/ALegendWillRise 
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