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and it was so powerful.
Then every night,
I was dreaming of lions.
And every day was
the same shock for me.
It was an emotional shock.
I mean, I'm a scientist
but a human too.
And after five days, I decided
not to go back in the cave,
because I needed time
just to relax and take time to... -
To absorb it?
- To absorb it, yeah.
Yeah.
And you dreamt
not of paintings of lions
but of real lions.
- Of both, of both, definitely.
Yeah.
And you were afraid
in your dreams?
- I was not afraid, no.
No, no, I was not afraid.
It was more a feeling of
powerful things and deep things,
a way to understand things
which is not a direct way.
- Uh, sorry.
Silence, please.
Please don't move.
We're going to listen
to the silence in the cave,
and perhaps we can even hear
our own heartbeats.
These images
are memories
of long-forgotten dreams.
Is this their heartbeat
or ours?
Will we ever be able
to understand the vision
of the artists
across such an abyss of time?
There is an aura of melodrame
in this landscape.
of a Wagner opera
or a painting
of German Romanticists.
Could this be our connection
to them?
This staging of a landscape
as an operatic event
does not belong
to the Romanticists alone.
Stone Age men might have had
a similar sense
of inner landscapes,
and it seems natural
that there's a whole cluster
of Paleolithic caves
right around here.
- The Chauvet Cave is just here
at the top of this cliff,
but the Chauvet Cave
is also associated
to this natural feature,
this beautiful arch
called Pont d'Arc.
Maybe this Pont d'Arc,
in the mythology of the people,
was not only a landmark
but a mark also
in the imagination,
in the stories,
in the mythology
that was important for them
to understand the world.
But what kind
of world was it
for Paleolithic people
back then?
- 35,000 years ago,
the Europe... -
Europe was covered by glaciers,
and in this glacial Europe,
you have to imagine a climate
dry, cold, but with sun also.
That was important.
In this place, for example,
you have to imagine
woolly rhinos,
mammoths along the rivers.
In the forest,
you had Megaloceros deers,
horses, reindeers, bisons,
and also ibex
or the antelopes moving.
So it was very rich.
The biomass
in this part of Europe
was very important
for the development of human
but also carnivores.
So you have to imagine
lions, bears, leopards,
wolves,
foxes in very large numbers.
And among all these carnivores
and predators, human.
Could it be how they
There's evidence that they cast
their own shadows
against the panels of horses,
for example.
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