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16,000-Year-Old Paintings In French Pyrenees Suggest Prehistoric Humans Risked Their Lives To Enter “Shaman Training Cave”

16,000-Year-Old Paintings In French Pyrenees Suggest Prehistoric Humans Risked Their Lives To Enter “Shaman Training Cave”

Prehistoric paintings found deep inside a perilously inaccessible cave in the French Pyrenees reveal how ancient hunter-gatherers risked their necks to conduct ritual activities in the bowels of the Earth. Known as Etxeberri Cave, the site is considered one of the most challenging caverns to have been explored by Palaeolithic humans, and may have been decorated as part of a …

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‘Kept fighting despite the odds’: the Russian journalists who risked everything to report the truth | Documentary films

‘Kept fighting despite the odds’: the Russian journalists who risked everything to report the truth | Documentary films

In the fall of 2021, the director Julia Loktev traveled from her Brooklyn home to Moscow, with the intent to film some friends under pressure. That summer, the Russian government had cracked down on the remaining independent media in the country, designating outlets and journalists it found irksome as “foreign agents”. Loktev, who moved to the US from the Soviet …

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