Toumaï, enquiry on our origins

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Production
2008, France
Original language
French
Running time
00:52:00
Genre
documentary
Topic
archeology
Directed by
Pierre Stine
Produced by
Gédéon Programmes, MPFT, France 5
Member page
Gédéon programmes

July 2002, 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...