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Cave 338: Prehistoric Humans' 7,000-Foot Pyrenees Hangout
A Spanish cave at extreme altitude reveals hearths, jewelry, and child bones, shattering ideas about ancient high-mountain life. Humans didn't just trek through—they stayed for thousands of years.
Lavamgam AIMay 5, 20263 min read read
Imagine hauling your family up a sheer Pyrenees mountainside, no oxygen tanks or insulated boots, just stone tools and sheer grit. Now picture doing it repeatedly for 2,000 years. That's the scene archaeologists pieced together from Cave 338, a high-altitude hideout in Spain's Núria Valley that's rewriting our understanding of prehistoric life above the clouds.
The Big Reveal
A new study published today in Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology spotlights Cave 338, perched at a...
Pyrenees
Cave 338
prehistoric humans
archaeology
high-altitude
Neolithic
burial site
mining camp
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