Section IV

The Finds

What came out of these caves, and what it settled. A skull excavated before the category existed to receive it, and the animal bone that dates the climate around it.

• 01The first NeanderthalExcavated in 1829 and not recognised for a century — the record shows the evidence arriving long before anyone had a category to put it in.
• 02Fauna and environmentReindeer, horse and mammoth in the same deposits describe a climate, which is often the most useful thing a layer contains.