On a Normandy beach, archaeologists are racing against time to preserve the world’s largest collection of prehistoric footprints, which have yielded rare vestiges of the daily life of Neanderthal communities that inhabited this fascinating location approximately 80,000 years ago.

Among these fragile traces, archaeologists have unearthed an astonishing collection of nearly 3,000 footprints —inarguably the world’s largest collection of prehistoric footprints, and which reveal a captivating story lost to time, following the footsteps of a long-extinct humanity.

With each new discovery, their investigation unearths more about the long-extinct and widely-misunderstood Neanderthal, all brought to life by stunning animation and CGI.