Neanderthals put 35 skulls in this cave…. why?

[Music] these are scenes from a 1914 film called Brute Force it perfectly illustrates the old view prehistoric man of neander tals in particular hunched over kind of simple-minded and of course battling dinosaurs for a long time Neals had a bad reputation in the 19th century they were almost called homo stupidus in the 110 years since this film was released though our view of neander tals has changed significantly they created sophisticated tools they interbred with Homo sapiens they were our ancestor and dare I say had rituals which is just the most human characteristic of all one of the best places to see evidence of nandal symbolic thinking is qua DES cuera in Spain where archaeologists Unearthed 35 skulls all of horned animals inside this one cave chamber let's take a look at this site what was found and the insights it provides into the minds of these ancient humans just want to take a moment here to thank the sponsor of today's video my Heritage the number one family history service they have over 90 million users they have access to 19 billion records no one makes tracing your family history tracing your Origins more accessible and easier than my Heritage but most importantly it's fun it's really really really really fun let me show you what I've been doing I've been working on my family tree for a little bit but you can see there's a lot of names on here many I didn't know before using my Heritage so that's great but as you can see over some of these names there are these little brown dots that's called a record match that's my heritage's system and they've found matches they found people and information connected to my family what they found here is a record match from the 1911 census connected to my great grandmother mael and it shows where they lived and the whole family at that time what I really love what I really really love down on the bottom right there my great grandfather's signature I love that in the same way I love archaeology seeing these little physical traces of of people's lives it brings it alive it literally brings it alive to me that's why I love archaeology and I really love that it's got the address too so you can kind of Snoop around on Google Earth ...