(Photographs by Cory Richards)
(Photographs by Cory Richards)
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Watch the Program: Cave People of the Himalaya
See the full National Geographic television special:
http://www.pbs.org/programs/cave-people-himalaya/
Do we ever get to see documentaries on such historical and exotic finds as are being uncovered in Mustang?
I read all the time of ancient and mysterious discoveries in far away lands, but few if any documentaries on them ever seem to get on TV.
I guess our culture is doomed forever now to have Dancing With the Stars and the Kardashians as predominent teaching and mind-expansion tools in the mass media.
Leni
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Cave People of the Himalaya
In the 1990s, a high Himalayan cave in Upper Mustang, Nepal was discovered to contain 42 ancient people, buried on wooden bunk beds. American archaeologist Dr. Mark Aldenderfer believes there must be more burial caves, but the challenge is how to find them deep within cliff faces in the cold and inhospitable environment of the Himalaya. He enlists the world’s best technical climbers to do the searching. Aldenderfer’s theory is the funerary caves were carved out by the earliest people to have settled in the Himalaya. If he can find their remains and extract their DNA, he’ll learn who these people were and what brought them to the toughest parts of the planet to live.
National Geographic’s cameras capture the rare moments of discovery as they unfold. First, the 7-year-old on the expedition finds a human bone along a riverbed. Then, a series of burial caves are discovered above the riverbed, with human remains spilling forth from dangerously eroding caves. Bioarchaeologist Jacqueline Eng begins laying the bones out anatomically to count the number of individuals in the cave. The climbers, led by seven-time Everest mountaineer Pete Athans, recover bones from a total of 27 individuals: adult men, women, adolescents, even infants, along with their goats, cows and a horse. Wood inside the caves provides the clue that bunk beds must have housed the bones at one time. ...”
See the full National Geographic television special:
http://www.pbs.org/programs/cave-people-himalaya/
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