A Shocking Find In a Neanderthal Cave In France
25th May 2016
Some 336 meters into the cave, the caver stumbled across something extraordinary—a vast chamber where several stalagmites had been deliberately broken. Most of the 400 pieces had been arranged into two rings—a large one between 4 and 7 metres across, and a smaller one just 2 metres wide. Others had been propped up against these donuts. Yet others had been stacked into four piles. Traces of fire were everywhere, and there was a mass of burnt bones.
These weren’t natural formations, and they weren’t the work of bears. They were built by people.
Recognizing the site’s value, the caver brought in archaeologist Francois Rouzaud. Using carbon-dating, Rouzaud estimated that a burnt bear bone found within the chamber was 47,600 years old, which meant that the stalagmite rings were older than any known cave painting. It also meant that they couldn’t have been the work of Homo sapiens. Their builders must have been the only early humans in the south of France at the time: Neanderthals.
Dan Brown, I have your next best-seller.
May 26th, 2016 at 09:01
Finally, proof that Congress is not populated with Neanderthals; they’re not capable of accomplishing anything as complex as a fire ring.
May 26th, 2016 at 09:52
It’s obviously the place where the aliens beamed down to start Homo Sapiens.
Don’t you know anything?