been credited with a crucial discovery that has helped understand why ice age hunter gatherers drew cave paintings. we ll be talking to ben bacon in a moment but first, what exactly did he discover? he analysed 20,000 year old markings on the drawings, concluding they could refer to a lunar calendar. but archaeologists had been stumped for many years by the meaning of various dots and other marks on the paintings. in particular, he examined a y sign on some paintings, which he felt might be a symbol for giving birth. so what does all this mean? has a stone aged code finally been cracked? at least 400 caves in europe, such as lascaux and chauvet in france and altamira in spain, have art on the walls drawn by homo sapiens.
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the yanomami live deep in this pristine forest. hunter gatherers, they re among the most isolated tribes in south america. but their land is becoming coveted, and their lives disrupted. this indigenous health centre has become a field hospital on the front line of illegal mining. malnutrition is growing as miners destroy the land around them. old and young, nobody escapes this scourge. outside, a makeshift ward is full of patients with malaria yet another illness brought in by outsiders and making the yanomami sick. they come so close to our community, the diseases don t stop, malarina tells me. the machines work constantly, the smoke from them causing diarrhoea and illness. her two month old grandson has pneumonia. he doesn t have a name. yanomami parents wait a few years to name them out of fear they may die.
indigenous reserve in the yanomami territory, where the very future of the rainforest is at stake. the yanomami live deep in this pristine forest. hunter gatherers, they re among the most isolated tribes in south america. but their land is becoming coveted, and their lives disrupted. this indigenous health centre has become a field hospital on the front line of illegal mining. malnutrition is growing as miners destroy the land around them. old and young, nobody escapes this scourge. outside, a makeshift ward is full of patients with malaria yet another illness brought in by outsiders and making the yanomami sick. they come so close to our community, the diseases don t stop, malarina tells me.