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Decoding Neanderthals

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Over 60,000 years ago, the first modern humans left their African homeland and entered Europe, then a bleak and inhospitable continent in the grip of the Ice Age. But when they arrived, they were not alone: the stocky, powerfully built…

DirectorNick Clarke Powell
ProducerJohanna Woolford Gibbon

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Cast · Directed by Nick Clarke Powell

LLLance Lewman
Lance Lewman
Self - Narrator

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