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.
May 11, 2015
(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.)
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