“How did thos skeletons get down there?”
Have enough of these bones been found of a single individual to determine if they were laid down in a possible burial position, or if they were carried in by a large preditor of flooding, in which case they would be scattered or deposited in a distorted position?
Also if I remember past info about the cave, I seem to recall that bones as old as 700 k had been found. Has this info been updated and changed?
What was the state of the Gibraltar area 1.2 m years ago? Certainly there were times in the past million years when it was probably possible to walk from Africa to Europe or the other way around.
Nope, the break at Gibraltar took place around 5 million years ago, if memory serves. Ah, it sez here, 5.5 myr. Since then, no solid connection, but I think there’s a topic around here (two years ago?) about navigation from Africa to Europe 100s of 1000s of years ago. Flores island in SE Asia hasn’t been connected to any mainland in human times, yet 800,000 year old tools were found there.
a little info, mostly about the Black Sea flood:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=noahs-flood