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Prehistoric cave uncovered in Western Galilee
A stalactite cave containing prehistoric remains was exposed in the Western Galilee. Among the artifacts found are flint implements and the bones of animals that have long since become extinct from the countrys landscape

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Prehistoric cave sculptures never seen by the public will be revealed today thanks to the most advanced, computerised techniques of laser-copying and visual display.
A museum to open near Poitiers, in western France, will span one-a-half millenniums of human image-making, from stone chisels to computers. The star of the show, at Angles-sur-L'Anglin, in the départementof Vienne, will be a 60ft-long frieze of bison, horses, cats, goats and erotic female figures, carved into the limestone of western France 15,000 years ago.
The caverns containing the frieze were discovered by French and British archaeologists in 1950 but have never been opened to the public. The Roc-aux-Sorciers (witches' rock) caves are the only site of their kind in Europe: a two-dimensional, carved equivalent of the celebrated cave paintings at Lascaux in Dordogne, 120 miles farther south, which were created 1,000 years earlier.

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The Gaadu Din cave on the east coast of Moresby Island is bringing to light more information about the environment that existed here soon after the last ice age ended.
Between 14,000 and 10,500 years ago, a variety of wildlife used the cave. Black bear bones are the most abundant, but remains of brown or grizzly bears, caribou, river otter, mice and voles have also been identified, as well as those of some sort of deer-like animal and a dog or fox.
The evidence for people is relatively limited, but two stone spear points, the tip of a bone point, and some simple flake tools have been found, as well as the remains of an ancient campfire. Indications are that this material will date to about 12,000 to 11,000 years before present.

Latitude: 52.440000N  Longitude: 131.38W

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What once was home to prehistoric humans has been found inside a tunnel located at the foothills of Bhirkuna area of Gaurimudi VDC, some 40 kilometres from district headquarters Charikot.
Locals said that although they occasionally ventured inside while hunting for porcupines, they never knew about its origin and the expanse of the cave. Ganesh Bahadur Tamang, a local claimed that he and his hunting mates often sneaked inside the tunnel looking for porcupines.

"We walked for nearly two hours inside the hole, but returned after we didn't find the end of the tunnel"  - Ganesh Bahadur Tamang.

The tunnel was not known to anyone except locals of Gaurimudi village until recently. Locals also informed that the cave is some 1.5 kilometres long.

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