Documentary
Inspired by our discussions and deliberations with our citizen panel of paleo-experts, we took their advice to heart, namely, to produce a documentary about Neanderthal research and its implications for how we see ourselves. We received extra funding (an Impact Explorer grant) from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) to produce a documentary entitled Neanderthals and Us: from competition to co-existence and exchange. We collaborate with two professional documentary makers, Wieke Kapteijns and Sjors Swierstra, who made several recordings, at Erasmus University Rotterdam, at the Neanderthal museum, and at the Bau de l’Aubesier, a rock shelter in the South of France where Neanderthal communities once lived in the deep past, combining interviews with filming on site. We expect to finish our documentary in the Spring of 2027.
The start of the project
