She must not have lacked strength and strong temperament, also because the wild life under the threat of ferocious animals marked all her time. But it was
San Felice Circeo, Italy, Jun 1 (EFE).- The Guattari Cave in San Felice Circeo, located on the Italian coast between Rome and Naples, hides a history of life and death marked by cannibalism and hyenas, according to archaeologists working at the Paleolithic site. In 1939, Italian archaeologist Alessandro Guattari found one of Europe’s oldest Neanderthal …
The Guattari Cave in San Felice Circeo, located on the Italian coast between Rome and Naples, hides a history of life and death marked by cannibalism and hyenas, according to archaeologists working at. Stories of life, death and cannibalism in Neanderthal cave of Guattari | Outstanding | English edition | Agencia EFE
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The colorful handprints of ancient humans. A spacecraft beyond the solar system.
They couldn’t be more different, but some of the first known cave art and the Voyager 1 spacecraft are among humanity’s most iconic creations.
It can stop you in your tracks when you think about the fact that humans were making art thousands of years ago in caves, and by the 1970s, we were sending probes across space to be our robotic eyes and ears.
Time has passed. Both feats of ingenuity remain but those handprints grow more vulnerable with each day. The precious markings tell a crucial part of our story: the beginning.