Updated May 25, 2016 at 03:07 pm
Paris
The image Neanderthal man as a gross hominid and predator could radically change thanks to some strange constructions of circular stone, created laboriously about 176,500 years ago in a cave in southwestern France, according to a study released Wednesday.
Bruniquel cave is in the Aveyron region, and is in an exceptional state of preservation. Discovered in 1990, of difficult access, has some amazing structures made bases stalagmites (mineral deposits pillar-shaped), whole or in pieces, arranged in a mysterious way.
Two of these structures are circular. One is a “wall” of 6.7 meters long, with several layers of fragments of stalagmites, with a height of 30 centimeters.
These buildings would have 176,500 years old. Beside remains of fire and bears charred, which according to a first study in 1995, led by the French François Rouzaud, would have 47,000 years.
“This was a great surprise for us . we have redone the calculations to be sure, “he told AFP Dominique Genty, French paleoclimatologist.
” Only Neanderthals could be the author, since there were no other human groups this time in Europe “highlights the archaeologist Marie Soressi, university of Leiden (Netherlands), according to the study published in Nature.
” the oldest formal proof (of traces of Neandertal ) so far was 38,000 years (in the Chauvet cave in France’s Ardèche), “according to one of the French researchers, cited by the study.
” This changes our view of Neanderthals, “he added.
the structures could not be created by natural conditions or by animals, researchers insist. Moreover, the way as these strange stone buildings could point to some kind of ritual are arranged.
The Neanderthals, which owes its name to the German valley that They found the first remains, in 1856, lived during the middle Palaeolithic in much of Europe and parts of Asia. He was a hunter, but these tests demonstrate that “were not those brutes that only dedicated to carve flints and killing buffalo to eat,” said Jaubert.
The stalagmites were uprooted and moved to be arranged in a mysterious order. . “2.3 tons of material moved That can only be a collective work,” said the expert
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“We estimate to have provided proof the ability of the Neanderthals to venture underground in a hostile environment, with the help of fire, to do unusual things, not just to survive, “he said.
” with bruniquel will follow a very interesting track, “he said.
early theories about the presence of Neanderthal men in the field were developed in the mid-1990s, but the death of French François Rouzaud left parked research. Cavers returned to the charge in 2013, by a group led by Sophie Verheyden, a researcher at the Royal Institute of Natural Sciences in Belgium.
Neanderthals who built them must have had a “project “to enter both in the cave, where there was no natural light, Jaubert said. They probably explored in depth group and cooperated to build the rings, using fire to light, he added. “They are extraordinary raids, certainly for extraordinary reasons not yet know”
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Paola Villa, an archaeologist at the University of Colorado Boulder and who was not involved in the study, said the site “it provides strong evidence of the great antiquity of these structures and is an important contribution to a new understanding of the high level of complexity of societies Neanderthals”.
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