PREHISTORY

Thanks Bossman, I'll check'm out later.....

Thanks for the links -- prehistory will always keep most of its secrets but the tiny glimpses we get amaze me. Some people may have trouble getting to the Guardian site, I did. By going to the Guardian home page and searching on Spain, there is an article half-way down about Excalibur, which was found with 350,000 year old bones.

I had the opportunity a year or so ago to take a tour of a very big cave south of this one. The art on the wall, the depths, the extent of the cave, the natural formations, including one floor that boomed & vibrated... just awe-inspiring.

I've never heard of either BirdBath or Magicbastarder. The only other forum I've been to is one on Scotland. It occasionally has some ancient history topics... but not THIS ancient.

Thanks for the links, Setanta!

The first link should be correctly:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,871235,00.html

(Thanks for giving the hints, Piffka.)

Great links Setanta, looking forward to further depths, although I gotta say..this stuff is pretty far back there

Well, Boss, that's what prehistory is all about, goin' pretty far back . . .

Here's another, compliments, once again, of Magicbastarder:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2645183.stm

Another excellent post by Birdbath at P45[/color][/b]:

Ruins of 4,300-year-old prehistoric city found in China

Chinese archaeologists have discovered the ruins of a prehistoric city dating back an estimated 4,300 years in southwest Sichuan province, state press said.

The find provided evidence that the region along the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, with the Chengdu Plain at the core, played an important role in the origin and development of Chinese civilization, experts said.

The ancient city of Yandian measures 700 metres from north to south and 500 metres from east to west, the Xinhua news agency reported.

It covers an area of more than 300,000 square metres.

Chen Jian, an official with the relics and archaeological team in the Sichuan capital Chengdu City, said the site is next to a river at an elevation of three metres above the river bank.

This indicated that ancient people considered the availability of water and flood prevention when deciding where to build cities, he said.

Archaeologists unearthed a number of pieces of inscribed pottery, polished stone axes, chisels and spears at the site.

They also found chips of human skulls on the city wall but were unable to explain how they got there.

http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s768954.htm