About 20,000 years ago, during the fourth and last ice age of the Quaternary era, man wandered the Earth in search of game and collecting fruit wherever he found it. When a human group arrived in an area rich in game or edible vegetation, they established temporary camps until the resources were exhausted, but some found especially fertile places, to the point that they regenerated before being exhausted, so that little by little Little did stable camps or towns dedicated to hunting and gathering emerge. This is how man became sedentary. Perhaps the oldest examples of this type of settlement (although not very numerous at first) are a series of settlements spread over time in northeast Africa, in modern-day Egypt, the first of which date back to 19,000 years ago. Apparently, its inhabitants gathered crops of wild barley and wheat annually.

00:00 Contemporary man emerges after great climate changes 15,000 years ago.
10:54 The invention of sedentarization by Homo sapiens and its impact on primitive civilizations.
21:36 The adaptation of nomads to a hostile environment leads to the birth of sedentary civilizations.
33:36 Survival through plants despite intense family rivalry.
48:13 The expansion of human civilizations through agriculture, livestock and technological innovation.
59:18 Urhu becomes a powerful and decisive leader, expelling evil with fire.
1:08:58 The emergence of leadership, the creation of a hierarchy and the influence of love in the lives of prehistoric men.
01:33:48 The transmission of knowledge.

Almost a decade has taken the director Jacques Malaterre and the scientist Yves Coppens to complete the ambitious project of capturing in images the prehistory of man, from the prehominids to the founding of the first civilizations, in what is the largest production ever made. about our origins. More than 8 million years of evolution recreated thanks to the latest anthropological findings, dozens of actors, the most modern digital animation techniques, chosen natural settings and dramatized sequences that serve to reinforce the interventions of prestigious scientists from around the world.

The Dawn Of Man - The Origins Of Humanity