Episode Details

Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) is a surreal documentary by Werner Hertzog offering viewers an unprecedented glimpse of Europe’s oldest Palaeolithic art inside France’s Chauvet Cave. As we step into the cave, we cross a threshold between present and past, waking and dreaming, fact and truth... sanity and insanity... A place where juggling archaeologists dream of lions, perfumers find caves by smell, and nuclear crocodiles draw closer every year.

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• Watch Cave of Forgotten Dreams
• Rock art from at least 67,800 years ago in Sulawesi
• Oldest cave art found in Sulawesi
• The timing and spatiotemporal patterning of Neanderthal disappearance
• Neanderthal hashtag
• Mask of La Roche Cotard
• Majkić et al. (2017) Sequential Incisions on a Cave Bear Bone from the Middle Paleolithic of Pešturina Cave, Serbia
• Life Drawing and the Chauvet Lions
• The Crocodile Farm
• Viminacium Archaeological Park
• Our review of The Lost City (2022)
• Kathy Reichs’ Temperance Brennan Series
• Hertzog explains “ecstatic truth” vs. “accountant’s truth”
• Azéma and Rivère (2012) Animation in Paleolithic Art
• Neanderthal perfume

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