(See “The vegetational and climatic contexts of the Lower Magdalenian human burial in El Mirón Cave (Cantabria, Spain): implications related to human behavior,” Journal of Archaeological Science, 2015.)
Image of the Day: Paleolithic Pollen
Sixteen-thousand-year-old Chenopodiaceae pollen found on the paleolithic tomb of the Red Lady of El Mirón—discovered in a Spanish cave in 2010—suggests that flowers were placed on her grave.

