In the South of France, a fascinating archaeological investigation takes place in the Mandrin Cave. The archaeologist Ludovic Slimak discovered an exceptional number of fossils and flints attesting that Neanderthals occupied the site for more than 80,000 years.

These remains also reveal the arrival of the first Homo sapiens, 54,000 years ago, in Western Europe. It seems that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens met here, on the banks of the Rhone river!

Then the team digs out a Neanderthal specimen. A very rare discovery. Named Thorin, he belongs to one of the last Neanderthal lineages.

These past 25 years diggings in the Grotte Mandrin, rewrite the scenario of the Neanderthals extinction and the way they were replaced by Sapiens. On these two major questions, the Grotte Mandrin sheds a new light.