Скачать или смотреть The First Europeans: Surviving the World's Deadliest Winter

35,000 years ago, Europe was a frozen wasteland. Glaciers two kilometres thick covered Scandinavia. Temperatures plummeted twenty degrees colder than today. Woolly mammoths, cave lions, and giant bears ruled a landscape that would kill unprepared humans in hours.

Yet somehow, impossibly, a population of barely 1,500 people not only survived—they thrived. They became the first true Europeans. They hunted the largest animals on Earth. They created art that would endure for millennia. They developed technologies that wouldn't be surpassed for thousands of years.
This is their story.

IN THIS VIDEO:
The frozen world of Paleolithic Europe and its megafauna
Who the Aurignacians were and where they came from
Revolutionary blade technology and composite weapons
Specialised hunting strategies: from reindeer to mammoths
The cave art of Chauvet: 420 motifs, 32,000 years old
Personal identity through beads, shells, and lion teeth
The mystery of Paleolithic burial practices
Our DNA connection to these ancient ancestors


SOURCES & FURTHER READING:
Chauvet Cave: The Art of Earliest Times (2003)
The Aurignacian of Europe: Identity and Diversity (Various)
Research by Dr. Marian Vanhaeren on Paleolithic personal ornaments
Archaeological studies from Swabian Jura, Peștera Cioclovina, and other key sites

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