Brian Cox visits Europe's oldest known cave paintings - Human Universe: Episode 5 Preview - BBC Two

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[lobotomyprincess]

I love cave paintings. It shows the brilliance of our ancestors, it’s such a raw and human experience.

[bpious]

That little girl is possibly the mother of millions of descendents.

[ABTX]

Wow. It's like someone extending their hand from 35000 years ago to you.

[lewisyuu]

a simple handprint has a bigger meaning underneath

[StephanieL]

The fifth episode was one of the most awe-inspiring, optimistic pieces of TV I've ever seen. Faith in humanity restored.

[Gurubashy]

When I see these paintings, especially when I see the hand paintings, I get the utmost desire to go back in time and see those people. I want to know how they looked like, if they had a name, how they lived, how they died. It's sad that they are forgotten and we'll never know anything about them.

[ericalicous]

Just so don't have the words. I hope they know we love them, or at least I Do !! Thank you for communicating with us.

[ZitsaAdem]

My teacher at the university told me to watch this documentary and he will ask questions from this 5th episode in the exam tomorrow. I watched well. I'm going to watch the first episodes now.
That was awesome

[johnrobinson]

They really should be using flickering light. That was part of the art.

[ericalicous]

We still have wild humans. They live on remote islands, deep in rain forest and within the Artic circle. It's hard for most people to perceive this. This planet is far larger than they imagine it is.

[roughryder]

I'm high and I got so lost in this preview that when it ended, I got shook. I didn't want it to end. Brian's soothing voice also probably had something to do with it. Time to find the full video.

[gaborszucs]

Makes you wonder what will people of the future think about the graffitis we leave behind in caves.

[susanmoran]

I am over awed by this. The childs print of her hand. Amazing.

[johnhunter]

This annoyed me—I'd rather see the works of art and hear the narrator, not see the narrator, hear the narrator, and occasionally glimpse some of the art.

[reigns_]

It amazes me that people these days lack the simple intelligence and deduce everything they see, its actually quite sad. "Paint can't stay on walls for that long" it's not paint lmao. The ingredients used to make the pigment was all natural which would last in conditions, "oh how can you tell it was a female" if you used your common sense and measured the height of the hand from the floor the dispersal of the fingers and circumference then you'd quite easily understand males and females are different in size and shape, but each day something new pops up and it's all about debunking without evidence or fact. Flat earth was debunked thousands of years ago by science by simple common sense yet when you show categorical proof they still look for something to debunk it because its ignorance to reality, these are people you encounter every day, people you work with, people you school with and its actually quite sad because the world is made up of alot of differences but thier is static science to things and things have been proven, if evidence was solid on both sides of something then that would be fine to debunk certain theories, this was creativity that child did that because their mind was creative just like how you are on your phone, in sports, on your consoles. It's not that hard to compute and its shocking that people cast doubt on such simple things and not actually take in the sheer beauty and understanding of our forefathers, in time to come when we are long and gone imagine someone coming along and telling their friends it's all fake etc. The video was lovely. Although brian is annoying.

[abacus]

They cave painters (from Indonesia to spain to france ) seem to operate from a type of 'hive mind' with a shared iconography, in the days before the printed word.

[lacountess]

I just came back from visiting these caves. Sadly I saw none of these paintings in walk I took through the cave. I wonder if I am incredibly dense and missed them or they were in an area blocked off from regular tourists.

[itsdakideli]

I wonder how it must have been to know that you are the past, but you are also the future.

[umutentropie]

I gotta admit: The first time I enjoy watching 3 mins of bbc stuff

[jimmybuffet]

My Uncle Grok made some of these paintings. And he never received so much as a mammoth hide for them.