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Anthropologist Stanley Shephard is brought to an arctic base when explorers discover the body of a prehistoric Neanderthal caveman who has been frozen for 40,000 years. After thawing the body to perform an autopsy, the scientists detected brainwaves on the EEG monitor and proceeded to successfully resuscitate the "iceman".
Simon Paul Sutton as Ao, the main protagonist of the film. He is the chieftain of a small Neanderthal clan in Northern Siberia. After his clan was exterminated by early modern humans, Ao embarks on a journey to find his native tribe in southern Europe, and his twin brother Oa, from whom he was separated when he was eleven.
Neanderthals appear as characters including in the 1986 movie adaptation of the first book, The Clan of the Cave Bear: Quest for Tomorrow: William Shatner: Neanderthals were a primitive psychic species which caught the eye of a large alien empire, which decided to isolate the telepathic gene and transplanted several experimental subjects to ...
Modern archaeology paints a truly compelling portrait of our oft-misunderstood relatives
Colin Greenland reviewed The Clan of the Cave Bear for White Dwarf magazine and stated that "there's a movie starring Daryl Hannah, whom I still like a lot, though she doesn't stand a chance amid all the picture-postcard photography, tacky mysticism and shaggy-browed sentimentality. But Ayla is unafraid, for she knows there are five more books ...
Claims made in the film that some Aboriginal Australians in the outback were actually neanderthals were also deemed by the Australian government to be harmful to ongoing anthropological research. After its 1947 re-screening the film went missing. A full print of the film was later discovered and made commercially available on DVD in 2010.
The film ends with Beyah detailing their story; she seems to regret killing the Neanderthals, remarking they were just people as terrified of the unknown as her group. Heron shows Beyah Ave's body laid out in the cave, which had been prepared for a funeral by the Neanderthals. The two bury the dead, and Beyah, now claiming the cave, remarks ...
Walking with Beasts, marketed as Walking with Prehistoric Beasts in North America, is a 2001 six-part nature documentary television miniseries created by Impossible Pictures and produced by the BBC Science Unit, [4] the Discovery Channel, ProSieben and TV Asahi.