The UE decision of choosing South Africa as the ‘Third Country’ could not be ignored by institutions devoted to the preservation and dissemination of oral literature, as South Africa is considered the seminal point. We may assume that South African oral tradition by the Khoisan people is one of the oldest of Humankind. Part of the ancient South African oral literature is preserved in print thanks to a European scholar: Wilhelm Bleek (1827-1875). The outcome of his work, the Bleek Collection, is part of the UNESCO Memory of the World Register.This project will be based on European and South African oral narrative, building up on more than 180 stories about the Big Universal Themes that are common to mankind. At a workshop held in South Africa, 6 European storytellers, 6 Africans, and 2 researchers: Spanish expert on the issue, José M. de Prada, and archeologist John Parkington, will choose pairs of matching stories representing any of these Big Universal Themes.Once chosen, storytellers will then tell those stories, recreating the way first human beings used to do, at relevant prehistoric sites in Spain and South Africa. Locations will be rock shelters at the Cederberg Mountains, and Los Casares cave and Atapuerca, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.The sessions at caves will be filmed to produce a documentary film that will remain as a permanent result of the project along with the web portal compiling the stories, granting future sustainability as an open site for recording oral tradition globally.The pairs of stories on Big Themes and its storytellers will then travel to the events put together by the European co-partners, as festivals can be identified with modern caves where thousands gather, like our ancestors, to share stories. Finally, these “new caves” will be taken to South Africa where a festival and a storytelling marathon will be held. These activities will also be part of the documentary film.