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Game fund: the 12,000 year old cave found

A 12,000-year-old undervandsgrotte is now found by divers. In the underwater cave has divers and researchers found no evidence that there even have been peopl

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Game fund: the 12,000 year old cave found

A 12,000-year-old undervandsgrotte is now found by divers.

In the underwater cave has divers and researchers found no evidence that there even have been people. There are found bones in the cave.

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Undervandsgrotter was once the host of America's oldest known okkerminer. Photo: Alison Perkins

It seems that the ancient americans have gone into something of a trip, since they are in the 10.000-12.000 r.kr. took her into the caves at the mexican peninsula of Yucatan.

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The ancient caves are believed to have been in use dating back to 10,000-12.000 r.kr. But the researchers are not absolutely sure what it exactly is used for.

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In the now underwater mexican caves has found evidence that they have been used to extract red ochre. Photo: Alison Perkins

It is three caves, which is coherent, as the researchers have found. In the caves, there is old mining equipment and tools to dig down, just as it can clearly be seen how some areas in the cave is excavated.

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That is found in both bones and the detritus from minearbejdet. Photo: Alison Perkins

It seems not immediately, that the main purpose of the cave has been residential, but rather an underground mine, which was used to extract red ochre, which was in high demand at the time.

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the Caves are hard to get to. You need to go through some very narrow passages. Photo: Alison Perkins

The red ochre was used both for practical things like sunscreen, but also to perform rituals and kropsmaling, tells the archaeologist Brandi MacDonald from the University of Missouri in Columbia in the UNITED states to Science News.

Scientists have found burnt wood, which has been used to inform the coal-black cave, which tells researchers that the mine has not always been under the water.

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Although it looks great, is it not safe to move down in the underwater caves. Photo: Alison Perkins

The bones that scientists have found in the cave, thought to come from the miners who worked in the cave, but died along the way. They were not raised, but was left in the depths.

the Researchers hope that the findings can make us wiser on some of the earliest technology.

The red ocher was used among other things to kropsmaling, like it was also used as a sunscreen. Photo: Alison Perkins

the Researchers hope that one can become wiser in the past technology. Photo: Alison Perkins

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