Image courtesy National Museum Cardiff
Elizabeth Walker, Palaeolithic & Mesolithic Archaeologist together with Head of Collections at National Museum Cardiff, talks almost a Neanderthal manus axe, which dates dorsum to c. 60,000-35,000 BC
This manus axe was institute during excavations at Coygan Cave, nigh Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, inwards advance of the cave’s devastation yesteryear quarrying inwards the 1960s. It is of a shape typically made yesteryear a Neanderthal together with was left at the cave amongst simply about other similar tool former betwixt 60,000 together with 35,000 years ago.
Findings similar this hint that Neanderthals may bring lived inwards the Carmarthenshire area, but nosotros bring no prove of their physical remains. The 2 axes nosotros bring were institute nigh the wall of the cave, together with it’s been suggested they were deliberately cached yesteryear their owners, who intended to provide to the cave to role them on a time to come visit.
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