Toumaï, the New Ancestor

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Production
2006, France
Original language
French
Running time
01:20:00
Genre
documentary
Topic
archeology
Directed by
Pierre Stine
Written by
Pierre Stine
Produced by
Gédéon programmes
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July 2001, in the Djourab desert of north Chad. Culminating more than twenty years of work, Michel Brunet, director of the French-Chadian Paleoanthropological Mission (MPFT) announces the discovery of our oldest human ancestor recorded to date. The creature, better known as Toumaï, is seven million years old and has just « crash-landed » in the world of the living. The entire history of humankind is thrown into question.