“Time Capsule” Cave Reveals Funerary Ritual Dating Back 7,000 Years
One of the erstwhile burial sleeping accommodation in theIberian Peninsulahas been identified in a cave in northerly Spain , with os from within the orchestra pit dated to over 7,000 year ago . exemplify some of the earliestNeolithichuman remains ever discovered in the region , the find supply a rare insight into the funerary customs of the menstruum . Discovered in 1972 , the Galería del Sílex cave was in the beginning believe to have been fill during the Bronze Age , around 3,000 days ago , when at some point the entrance was sealed , its occupants locked inside a " metre capsule " awaiting discovery , which bump in 1979 ....