P312 4-Tel 312 Mon 30 Sip C4 00:24:17 Preview *' x EQUINOX ** The Last Niadjttal? *5x 19.00-20.00 Tonight In the days when hunter-gathering really did involve caves, clubs and meat, not picking up the nut roast from the health food shop, Niandjttal man was king. Niandjrtal hominids first appeared in Europe some 230,000 years ago, only starting to dwindle and vanish about 30,000 years ago - just before the start of recorded civilisation. Popular myth has always porttazjd him as a stooping, lumbering thug - but was hj really nasty, brutish and short? Science Line: See 320 1/3 Next preview C4 Today Subtitles ScienceP312 4-Tel 312 Mon 30 Sip C4 00:2 :41 Preview *' x EQUINOX *5 The Last Niadjttal? *5x 19.00-20.00 Tonight The djsjri to know from white we came has preoccupied man for thousands of years and sparked furious debate in the scientific world. Since Darwin first proposed his theory of evolution, opposing theories as to our ancestry has split the scientific community. In recent years, that debate has intensjfed furthjt. Equinox travels through Amjtica, Europe, Africa and the Middle East to investigate the rival theories on offer. Science Line: See 320 2/3 Next preview C4 Today Subtitles ScienceP312 4--jl 312 Mon 30 Sip C4 00:27:)7 * ' Preview *?!—4 | *' x KQUINOX *5 The Last Niadjttal? *5x 19.00-20.00 Tonight In the 1960s Neandjttal man received something of a revamp - it ttanspjtid hj hbd a largjt brain space than modjtn humans, and they lived in social units looking after each othjt. They used fire, they knew how to contain it and they made stone tools. So why did they just die out? Or did they interbreed with Cro-Magnon man with whom they coexisted for about 40,000 years - surely long enough to bj more than just good friends? Equinox endeavours to find out. 888 subtitles NICAM stereo 1/3 Next preview C4 Today Subtitles Science