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Do you find human prehistory and evolution fascinating?

posted 5 years ago by MovieBuff224 (5053)
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Why aren’t there more books/movies about this? Quest for Fire is the only one that comes to mind.

Everything else that has been made has been farcical caveman schlock; One Million Years BC, Clan of the Cave Bear, 10,000 BC (which admittedly had some great creatures and costumes/set design/locations.)

We need an authentic, historically accurate film about early man, preferably with plenty of megafauna and breathtaking scenery.

[–] ShogunofYonkers (78603) 5 years ago

You may enjoy Quest For Fire
It appears fairly accurate to what we know of the time

[–] MovieBuff224 (5053) 5 years ago

Yeah I need to watch

[–] ShogunofYonkers (78603) 5 years ago

Ron Perlman is very amusing and Rae Dawn Chong is quite fetching in it

[–] MovieBuff224 (5053) 5 years ago

Lol Ron Perlman is the missing link.

[–] ShogunofYonkers (78603) 5 years ago

I doubt they needed makeup
He was perfect for his role👍

[–] AndyKing1967 (39853) 5 years ago

🤣

[–] CoreyHaimFan (1031) 5 years ago

It's really good. Very similar in ideas to a recent documentary about the history of evolution I saw on Curiosity Stream.

If u had the fire back in the day you got all the poon tang.

[–] ShogunofYonkers (78603) 5 years ago

Plus cooked meat!
I can't imagine what raw mammoth tasted and stunk like🤢

[–] sslssg (35194) 5 years ago

The trouble is that we don't know enough about them. The Clan of the Cave Bear book series (I couldn't get through the movie) are steeped in scientific accuracy, but science doesn't know enough of what daily life was really like to create a whole story without throwing in a lot of fiction, (or romance).

You might want to look into documentaries Walking with Cavemen, Incredible Human Journey, and Becoming Human https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/series/becoming-human/episodes/

[–] MovieBuff224 (5053) 5 years ago

We still don’t know what daily life was like for them?

[–] sslssg (35194) 5 years ago

We have guesses, which is what I should have said. Because there was no written history what we think we know is all based on art, utensils, and other artifacts that we've seen. I'm no expert, but from what I understand we know way more about cro-magnon man than we do Neanderthals.

I just think of all the things that I learned about dinosaurs as a child that are no longer fact.

[–] AmeriGirl26 (15113) 5 years ago

It is somewhat interesting to see what humanity was like before civilization was invented. And to be fair, the "Earth's Children" series of books was far superior to that crappy "Clan of the Cave Bear" movie from the 80s.

[–] jriley555 (8551) 5 years ago

very interested in paleontology, prehistory.

teeth provide a lot of information on paleo diets. snow and core samples provide
much info on paleo climates, flora & fauna.

the big problem with late human evolution (ergaster thru heidelbergensis) is
complexity - a lot of regional adaption w/ gene flow, a very bushy process
a dearth of fossils from the epochs in question, particularly the
1.2M - 700K range
also, the pre 6M range, covering the chimp-hominid split

[–] Quasimodo (16388) 5 years ago

This is a 24 minute documentary on Australian Aborigines living as hunter gatherers back in the 1950's in northern Queensland. It's probably as close an idea as you'll get about how our ancient ancestors lived.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNIPXa5USZE

[–] overseas7 (5071) 5 years ago

Yes I definitely do, a fascinating subject.
I have several books and documentaries about it, really interesting , referring to a movie I only remember Quest for fire. It is sad that
there are not in Africa anthropological tourist spots (can I write it in this way?), it would be nice to visit the Afar region or the Olduvei.
However here in Europe there are some places in Germany, Spain or France which can be visited.