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...refined. It used to be that scientists needed to test a large sample of paint to pinpoint its age. And, says anthropologist Margaret Conkey, "no one was willing to scrape a bison's rump off the wall." Now it takes only a tiny sample. French prehistory expert Arlette Leroi-Gourhan estimates dates by using pollen particles preserved on cave floors...
...subhuman slob. Yet Homo Neanderthalensis, so named for the Central European valley in which his bones were discovered, survived for 2,000 generations and seems to have had the same sensitivities as his descendants. Writing in the monthly report of the French Prehistoric Society, Archaeologist Arlette Leroi-Gourhan described a cave on the Iraqi side of the Zagros Mountains where a 5-ft. 8-in. Neanderthal man was buried by his friends on a bier of wild flowers. Pollen from blossoms plucked 60,000 years ago in mourning for the unknown hunter came from primordial hyacinths, hollyhocks, and bachelor...
Position Is Important. There, beneath layers of clay and stones, were the unmistakable traces of a dwelling built by man on the shores of the Mediterranean 200,000 years ago. "It is certainly the oldest organized human dwelling yet dug up," says Sorbonne Prehistorian Andre Leroi-Gourhan. France's fore most authority on paleontology, Profes sor Jean Piveteau, is equally emphatic. "It appears to show that prehistoric man already had a certain social organization 200,000 years ago." Before the Nice discovery, the oldest known man-made dwelling, dating from around 150,000 years ago, was unearthed in southern...