Toumaï, enquiry on our origins
details
- 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...