Neanderthals Analysis

There were any accurate things depicted throughout the movie about the living and dwelling of the Neanderthals. The efforts put into the movie for the accuracy are really appreciable. Firstly, it is made clear that the clan never accepted outsiders to be the part of their lives, but in case of Ayla she was a little kid and was injured by a lion. She was taken in by Iza the medicine women and Creb. She later grew to be a women of the tribe, but was never accepted as one by the whole tribe. Secondly, we were also able to how the hunters got their tags as being one. Thirdly, the roles were also made clear as the women were supposed to be the caretakers of the children and some were trained to be the medicine providers or in other words the tribe doctor. Women were forbidden to be a hunter and even if they touched the hunting tools they were let go to wander on their own. …show more content…
These are scattered during the while movies, and are easy to miss if you don’t look carefully. Firstly the weapons used in this movie were just spears and knives made out of bones, but Neanderthals also possessed the clubs made out of heavy animal bones, which are shown as the walking supports for the old people. The pears that hunters used were just sharpened wood branches but in reality they had sharp edged stones or bones attached to the tips of the weapons, which would have been way more effective and deadly (Chazan 2016:118). Secondly the language used in the movie sounds a little bit like proto Indo-European, but the Neanderthals used sign language for the most part of the movie, which was not that prominent during those times. Lastly, there was little to no proof of fossils available in the movie, apart from the skull of the cave bears and the turtle shell (medicine bowl) there was not much proof of the fossils during the whole journey of the clan during the search of the