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How did archeology develop before the 19th century and what discoveries of scientists laid the foundations of anthropology? Who came up with the idea of sorting museum artifacts by century? Where were the first great apes, Dryopithecus, discovered? And why was the first Neanderthal skeleton found at a construction site by a school teacher? In this episode of Drobyshevsky. Homo sapiens, Stanislav Drobyshevsky talks about the finds that have changed scientists' understanding of the human past. 00:00 Drobyshevsky. Homo sapiens. Go and dig 01:14 How did scientists interpret the first archaeological finds? 05:50 About Jacques Boucher de Perthes, the founder of modern anthropology 08:22 How did the first archaeological museums emerge and look like? 10:54 About Acheulean tools that changed our understanding of the Lower Paleolithic 13:38 Where were the first fossil ancestors of man, Dryopithecus, discovered? 17:25 Why was the first Neanderthal skeleton found by a school teacher? 19:08 "The very idea that ancient people were different from us took shape after the 19th century" 22:45 On the excavations in Le Moustier: Neanderthal children and tools 24:38 On the earliest evidence of the existence of homo sapiens We thank the Zoological Museum of Moscow State University on Bolshaya Nikitskaya, 2 for their help in filming the episode Subscribe to @RTVItainment and like RTVI News - all the main events in a 24/7 format: / myrtvi