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is that we realize
that archeology today
is not a heroic adventure
with spades and picks
but high-tech scientific work
that's done
with incredible detail.
Really millimeter by millimeter,
the sediments are removed
in these deposits
the age of Grotte Chauvet
and our sites,
between 30,000
and 40,000 years ago.
And this detailed work
allowed Maria
of finds
that she was able
to piece together.
Maybe you can explain
how that worked out.
- Yes, we were doing
an inventory
of all the artifact pieces.
Some of the pieces came
from the 1970s,
from the first years
of excavation,
and these were
really small pieces.
You can see here
in this picture.
The tiny ivory pieces
remained unexplained
for a full three decades.
- And 31 pieces had
a very significant look.
of the finger holes
and with notches on the side,
and with these pieces,
I thought already
that it could be
a part of an ivory flute.
Of course, the question
was very important
how this flute was made.
And you can see here
on the long axis
there is a split
going all over the flute,
and inside the two halves,
along this axis, along the split
helped to refit these two halves
together very precise.
This flute is only one
of eight in all
so far recovered from this area
of southwestern Germany.
The caves here
have no paintings
of art.
- In this cave,
the Geissenkloesterle cave,
many very important findings
from the Ice Age were made.
statues of bear and mammoth... -
a very tiny mammoth,
very lovely.
And in 1992, I was part
of the excavation team.
People lived here about 30,000,
and in that time,
it was very cold here,
because the Alp Mountains
were covered by a glacier
about 2,500 meters thick.
And in the valley down there,
reindeer and mammoth
were passing,
and it was very cold.
And that's the reason why
I'm dressed up like an Inuit.
We presume that in this way,
the people of the Ice Age
were clothed
by reindeer fur
and boots made of reindeer fur
and reindeer leather,
because otherwise
you couldn't stand the cold.
One of the most important finds
we made in this cave
was a very tiny flute made
out of the radius of a vulture.
Astonishing on this flute
is that is... -
that it is pentatonic,
and this is the same tonality
we are used to hear today.
And if you like, I'll try to
play some small tunes for you.
And when I first reconstructed
the instrument
and tried to play some tunes,
Sounds a little bit
like Star-Spangled Banner.
Back in France,
near Chauvet Cave,
explorers
using more primal techniques
in search of still-hidden
underground chambers
roam the landscape.
Professional cave explorers
have techniques for finding
underground chambers,
because there are air currents.
So they use the back
of their hands or their cheeks
to feel for a faint draft of air
that may be coming
out of the cave.
I'm trying to do things
differently,
as I have the habit of using my
sense of smell in my profession.
So I try to sniff the smells
coming from the interior
of a cave.
Here, I didn't smell anything
except the exterior landscape.
Outside you can smell the earth,
the wild thyme, the ivy.
You can smell a range of things
but nothing specific
related to a cavern
that's been closed
for thousands of years.
This is my personal technique,
because I design perfumes.
It's a matter of trying
to experience it
in a different manner.
So I've been... - I've always
created perfumes,
and most notably,
I was president
of the French Society
of Perfumers
for some years and...
There are plans
for tourists
with a precise replica
of the cave
a few miles from here.
This replica may even contain
a re-creation
of the odor
of the prehistoric interior.
- Evidently, the odor
is quite attenuated.
It is very subtle.
There are not many emanations,
but our imagination permits us
to try and reconstruct
the scene,
the scene with its odors
from 25,000 years ago,
with all the animals that
would have been found there... -
bears, wolves, perhaps even
rhinoceroses, and man... -
meaning burnt wood, resins,
the odors of everything
from the natural world
that surrounds this cave.
We can go back
with our imagination.
Herzog:
With his sense of wonder,
the cave transforms
into an enchanted world
of the imaginary
where time and space
lose their meaning.
These crystal formations take
thousands of years to grow.
The artists of the cave
never even saw them,
as many of them
only started to form
after the landslide
sealed the entrance.
In a forbidden recess
of the cave,
there's a footprint
of an eight-year-old boy
next to the footprint
of a wolf.
Did a hungry wolf
stalk the boy?
Or did they walk together
as friends?
thousands of years apart?
We'll never know.
Dwarfed
illuminated
by our wandering lights,
sometimes we were overcome by
a strange, irrational sensation
as if we were disturbing
the Paleolithic people
in their work.
It felt like eyes upon us.
This sensation occurred
to some of the scientists
and also the discoverers
of the cave.
It was a relief to surface
again aboveground.
Back outside,
we ask Jean-Michel Geneste
about hunting techniques
of Paleolithic people
millennia before the invention
of bow and arrow.
- The Ohauvet Oave
Aurignacian people
hunted a lot
of really big games.
They hunted everywhere
in France and Europe.
In the settlement,
we found a lot of bones
of reindeer, bison, horses,
and sometime mammoths.
So they developed very specific
hunting technology.
For example, the system
of the Aurignacian bone point
is very ingenious.
It's a bone point
on a wooden shaft.
The piece of the bone point
is very strongly associated
to the shaft.
and a piece inside.
So it's very strong.
It has been made and developed
to kill bison or horses
like that.
It's very aggressive,
and it's also very strong
and powerful.
This kind of weapon and spear
were thrown
not only by hand, like that,
because it's not very efficient,
but l... - we suspect that very... -
in the beginning
of the Paleolithic,
they developed the technology
of the spear thrower.
A spear thrower, it's at
the beginning only a hook,
sometime a tooth,
a piece of antler,
like this one,
on a long handle.
It's elongated arm gave
a lot of power, like that,
and also at the same time,
some precision to keep... -
I just... - to give the spear
a good direction.
So I will show you.
Yes.
You see, the spear
with a flint point,
but to use this,
it's necessary to have
a small depression
at the back of the spear.
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