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  • Traces of Alpine ibex hunters found in Tatra cave [Slovakia]

    09/06/2022 9:09:41 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 15 replies
    Science in Poland ^ | September 2, 2022 | Szymon Zdziebłowski
    Traces of Alpine ibex hunters from several thousand years ago have been discovered in the Belianske Tatras in Slovakia.Based on isotope analyses, the joint Slovak-Polish research expedition in Hučivá Cave (Hučivá diera), say the traces were found in what was a Palaeolithic settlement left by the Magdalenian people, best known from France and Spain in the 13th millennium BC.Professor Paweł Valde-Nowak from the Institute of Archeology of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków said: “It was a group of hunters specialising in hunting ibex, a species no longer found in the Tatras today.“We found several hundred blades of thrown weapons, bone...