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Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) is a surreal documentary by Werner Hertzog offering viewers an unprecedented glimpse of Europe’s oldest Palaeolithic art inside France’s Chauvet Cave. As we step into the cave, we cross a threshold between present and past, waking and dreaming, fact and truth... sanity and insanity... A place where juggling archaeologists dream of lions, perfumers find caves by smell, and nuclear crocodiles draw closer every year.

Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) - Screens 125

Joshua Lindal

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• Watch Cave of Forgotten Dreams

• Rock art from at least 67,800 years ago in Sulawesi

• Oldest cave art found in Sulawesi

• The timing and spatiotemporal patterning of Neanderthal disappearance

• Neanderthal hashtag

• Mask of La Roche Cotard

• Majkić et al. (2017) Sequential Incisions on a Cave Bear Bone from the Middle Paleolithic of Pešturina Cave, Serbia

• Life Drawing and the Chauvet Lions

• The Crocodile Farm

• Viminacium Archaeological Park

• Our review of The Lost City (2022)

• Kathy Reichs’ Temperance Brennan Series

• Hertzog explains “ecstatic truth” vs. “accountant’s truth”

• Azéma and Rivère (2012) Animation in Paleolithic Art

• Neanderthal perfume

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