40,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Cave Chamber Discovered in Gibraltar

[Judi Lynn]

By Patricia Claus
August 7, 2022



The cave found in the rock of Gibraltar which had been inhabited by Neanderthals 40,000 years ago
before being blocked off in a rockfall. Credit: Facebook/Gibraltar Government

Professor Clive Finlayson, an evolutionary biologist who is the director of the Gibraltar National Museum, recently led a team of experts along the shore of the eponymous Rock, finding a Neanderthal cave that was inhabited long ago.

They ended up finding the equivalent of an anthropological gold mine, discovering the habitation of Neanderthals who had lived in a cave in the cliff 40,000 years ago.

The cave, almost completely sealed off by a rockfall, was found by Finlayson and his team after they enlarged the opening and climbed through.

Gibraltar National Museum archaeologists have been searching since 2012 to find possible habitations that had been blocked by sediment and rocks in Vanguard Cave, which is only one part of the vast UNESCO World Heritage site called the Gorham’s Cave Complex.

More:
https://greekreporter.com/2022/08/07/40000-year-old-neanderthal-cave/

[rsdsharp]

1. Large Marge Greene was in the back, whippin' up some

sabre tooth tiger steaks.

[Golden Raisin]

2. Insult to Neanderthals.

[mitch96]

3. I wonder what "they" will find of us in 40,000 years?.... nt