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Into the Inferno

How in the world can we find the place where this dead person's bonescame to rest and...

How in the world can we find the place where this dead person's bones
came to rest and arrive just at the geological moment that erosion is carving
these sediments out, exposing these ancient surfaces, with the monkeys and the hippos
and everything else, thousands of bones and artifacts
all over the surface?

Full Transcript

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How in the world can we find the place
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where this dead person's bones came to rest
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and arrive just at the geological moment
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that erosion is carving these sediments out,
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exposing these ancient surfaces,
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with the monkeys and the hippos and everything else,
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thousands of bones and artifacts all over the surface?
Duration
21 seconds
Views
53
Timestamp in Movie
00:49:50
Uploaded
Nov 01, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Matter of Fact Media,Werner Herzog Filmproduktion,Spring Films

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Movie Summary

An exploration of active volcanoes around the world.
If I had to say, "Get that guy out here on the surface. - Into the Inferno 00:06
If I had to say, "Get that guy out here on the surface.
That is Kampiro Kayrento, - Into the Inferno 00:07
That is Kampiro Kayrento,
[indistinct chatter] - Into the Inferno 00:05
[indistinct chatter]
He is one of the world's experts, if not the world's expert. - Into the Inferno 00:05
He is one of the world's experts, if not the world'...
He can recognize what's an antelope, what's a carnivore, - Into the Inferno 00:14
He can recognize what's an antelope, what's a carn...
You find pieces of animals, pieces of the bones of animals. - Into the Inferno 00:06
You find pieces of animals, pieces of the bones of animals.
Cranial vault piece, freshly out of the ground. - Into the Inferno 00:06
Cranial vault piece, freshly out of the ground.
That one needs to be squirted off. - Into the Inferno 00:05
That one needs to be squirted off.
This bone is beautifully preserved, - Into the Inferno 00:08
This bone is beautifully preserved,
So, we've got now a number of different elements. - Into the Inferno 00:06
So, we've got now a number of different elements.
The most diagnostic and important one, ultimately, will be this one here, - Into the Inferno 00:13
The most diagnostic and important one, ultimately, will be t...
Of the left orbit. - Into the Inferno 00:05
Of the left orbit.
I'm looking into the eye of a Paleolithic hominid that lived here. - Into the Inferno 00:07
I'm looking into the eye of a Paleolithic hominid that ...
[Clive] Yeah, no one's gonna argue that those two pieces fit back together. - Into the Inferno 00:05
[Clive] Yeah, no one's gonna argue that those two piece...
In evolutionary terms, here in the Middle Awash, - Into the Inferno 00:08
In evolutionary terms, here in the Middle Awash,
The ones on the bottom have small-brained early bipeds. - Into the Inferno 00:07
The ones on the bottom have small-brained early bipeds.
We still have a lot to learn about them, but the importance for humanity - Into the Inferno 00:16
We still have a lot to learn about them, but the importance ...
To know the people who were the ones - Into the Inferno 00:12
To know the people who were the ones
While these people were living here in tropical Africa, - Into the Inferno 00:09
While these people were living here in tropical Africa,
Let's go get more pieces. Are we ready to rock 'n' roll? - Into the Inferno 00:05
Let's go get more pieces. Are we ready to rock 'n&...