The Film (54’-2024) won the Prize Upside at Pariscience Festival 2024. You can see it on arte.tv until 11 December 2024.
Thorin, the Neanderthal exhumed from a cave in the Rhone Valley in southern France, provides precious clues to the mysterious disappearance of this species and its gradual replacement by Homo sapiens. An archaeological investigation into one of the greatest enigmas of prehistory.
Director : Pascal Cuissot
Coproduced by Arte France / Fred Hilgemann Films
With the support of CNRS Images, The French National Centre of Cinema, Procirep, the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, and Malataverne city.
Scientific advisor : Ludovic Slimak, CNRS
France
Team of Ludovic Slimak (CNRS), Centre d'Anthropobiologie et de génomique de Toulouse (CAGT), UMR 5288 Toulouse
Laure Metz, archaeologist, traceologist (Aix-Marseille Univ.- CNRS)
Ségolène Vandevelde, archaeologist, traceologist- fuliginochronology, LSCE (UMR 8212 - Université Panthéon sorbonne/ÉTS Quebec Univ.)
Clément Zanolli (CNRS), palaeoanthropologist, PACÉA (UMR 5199 - Bordeaux Univ./CNRS)
Docteur Rémy Escalssan, Professor of Dental Surgery, Marseille School of Dental Medicine
Denmark
GeoGenetics Center at the University of Copenhagen: Tarsika Vimala (palaeogeneticist); Andaine Seguin-Orlando (palaeogeneticist), and Martin Sikora (palaeogeneticist)
United Kingdom
Manchester University: Mike Buckley (palaeogeneticist)
Oxford University: Tom Higham (archaeologist)
Gibraltar : Clive Finlayson, evolutionary biologist, director of the national museum
Australia
Southern Cross University: Renaud Johannes-Boyau (geochronologist)
