Jersey: Ice Age Island
The Ancients
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The Neanderthal Home Base in Lacard
The two bone heap layers have very little evidence for burning at all. So we think they must be bringing bone in as a fuel. And if the landscape around there is being used regularly for hunting, you can imagine what you leave from a mammoth car. It would create a great well-drained substrate to live onAll this burnt bone. Huge amounts of it. The fact we're not getting discrete halves is probably down to one or two things. Either the cold temperature conditions which are creating freezing and thawing in the sediments are kind of dispersing them. Or they're kind of dispersed their own halves and disturbing their own halves themselves because of the abundance. I can ask
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