Goyet Caves

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The Goyet Caves , which gained international fame due to the historical finds there, are located in the hamlet of Goyet in the municipality of Gesves , Province of Namur in Belgium , on the Struviaux river .

Finds

Numerous remains of Neanderthals were discovered in the Goyet caves . Scientists found cuts and nicks on the bones that suggest cannibalism has occurred within the Neanderthal community . These findings confirm this for the first time for northern Europe.

Furthermore, in the 19th century, the zoo archaeologist Mietje Germonpré dated the skull of a dog to an age of 31,700 years and classified it as the oldest known dog bone in human history.

Another highly regarded find are the bones of vegan cave bears , which lived in Europe in the last glacial period around 400,000 years ago and died out around 25,000 years ago due to the reduced food supply due to the climate. The studies on nutrition were carried out under Hervé Bocherens , University of Tübingen .

Web links

  • Goyet Caves Official Website (accessed September 28, 2016)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hubert Filser: Neanderthals tended to cannibalism. Süddeutsche Zeitung, July 7, 2016, accessed on September 28, 2016 .
  2. ^ Matthias Schulz: The big eating. Spiegel Online, September 9, 2019, accessed September 28, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Hubert Filser: Away from the wolf. Süddeutsche Zeitung, February 12, 2016, accessed on September 28, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Does the original dog come from China? GEO, accessed September 28, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Veganism put an end to Ice Age cave bears. derStandart.at, accessed on September 28, 2016 .
  6. ↑ The cave bear died out because he was vegan. n-tv, accessed on September 28, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Ice Age Bear was a vegan. SWR television, 23 August 2016, accessed on 28 September 2016 .
  8. ↑ Cave Bear: Extinct Vegan. Senckenberg, August 23, 2016, accessed October 3, 2016 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 26 ′ 40.7 "  N , 5 ° 0 ′ 45.5"  E