Gough's Cave
Gough's Cave is a cave in Cheddar Gorge in the Mendip Hills , Somerset . It is at least 2135 m long and is known as an archaeological dig.
The most famous find from this cave is the roughly 9,000 year old skeleton of a human called Cheddar Man . This find, discovered in 1903, became a symbol of the beginning of the uninterrupted settlement of the island of Great Britain by anatomically modern humans ( Homo sapiens ), which extends to the present day . In fact, the island's settlement dates back much further, as u. a. several human skullcaps discovered in the cave show that are around 14,700 years old ( Cal BP ) and were ritually processed after the death of the people.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gough's cave. On: cheddargorge.co.uk
- ^ First modern Britons had 'dark to black' skin, Cheddar Man DNA analysis reveals. On: theguardian.com on February 7, 2018
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↑ Silvia M. Bello, Simon A. Parfitt and Chris Stringer : Earliest Directly-Dated Human Skull-Cups. In: PLoS ONE . Volume 6, No. 2, 2011, e17026, doi: 10.1371 / journal.pone.0017026
Cheddar cave dwellers ate their dead and turned their skulls into cups. On: theguardian.com of February 16, 2011
Coordinates: 51 ° 16'53 " N , 2 ° 45'51" W.