The next shot is of the cave floor, where he sloshes ankle-deep through excrement.
Stalagmites, some as high as flagpoles, jutted from the cave floor.
And when bats die from age or disease, their fallen bodies feed small mammals and insects on the cave floor.
Against a perhaps too minimal string section, Björk kneels on a cave floor, hugging herself, nursing her heartbreak.
Tells how he found a layer in the cave floor which, by a terrific stroke of luck, had entombed the lower layer.
Even charcoal pieces that dropped from the artists' hands on to the cave floor are here; still in the place where they fell, 32,000 years ago.
Aissa agreed to pose for photographs, provided his family were excluded, and stretched out like a pasha on the cave floor.
When an Indonesian team member struck bone deep in the cave floor, the archaeologists slowly uncovered the pieces of a tiny skull and jawbone of an adult female and parts of her skeleton.
It depicts a human with the features of several different animals, and it dominates the mass of animal figures from a height of 13 feet (4 metres) above the cave floor.
Once the men were all seated on the cave floor, the emir turned on the projector and a video flickered on the cave wall: an Arab man in an orange jumpsuit in a cage.
Dotted around the construction site are round holes in the ground where the stalagmites were wrenched from the cave floor, demonstrating that builders have not cleared up after themselves since at least the Middle Pleistocene.
