The 8,800-Year-Old Man Found 1,000 Feet Inside A Colorado Cave — And The DNA Test That Linked Him To A Native American Founder Lineage
Whether the specific motivation was religious or ceremonial in a formal sense, or simply a deeply personal engagement with an extraordinary place, it was clearly not trivial.
The cave is extraordinary.
The man who entered it was extraordinary in his willingness to do so.
Science has established that he was there and roughly when he was there.
What drew him, what he experienced in the dark, and what he believed he was doing — these are the questions that the cave keeps, as it has kept them for nearly nine thousand years.
The Broader Landscape Of Early American Cave Use
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