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The Cave Itself As Landscape
Gough’s Cave in the Mesolithic was not, as it is today, a tourist attraction with a gift shop at the entrance and electric lighting throughout.
It was a dark, cool, and potentially sacred space at the edge of the landscape that Mesolithic communities moved through.
The Mendip Hills offered a variety of resources: upland hunting ground, limestone springs, river valleys with fish and water mammals, and the caves themselves.
The caves were used for various purposes across the Mesolithic and Paleolithic — shelter from extreme weather, possibly ceremonial spaces, and, as the evidence suggests, burial locations.
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