Bruniquel Cave structures
c. 176,000 years ago · Event
Neanderthals build rings of broken stalagmites by firelight 330 metres inside a French cave, the oldest known human constructions.
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More from Human Origins & the Ice Age
- Emergence of Homo sapiens (300000 BCE)
- Split between humans and chimpanzees (7000000 BCE)
- Extinction of the Neanderthals (40000 BCE)
- Neanderthal remains found in the Neander Valley (1856)
- Pleistocene Ice Age (2580000 BCE)
- Homo floresiensis, the island 'hobbits' (100000 BCE)
- Shanidar Cave excavations (1951)
- King names Homo neanderthalensis (1864)