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Sidrón Cave

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Evidence suggests that the 12 members of the Neanderthal "family" found here were massacred some 50,000 years ago. Butcher marks on the bones suggest cannibalism. 

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Sidrón Cave in Spain

The Sidrón Cave (Spanish: Cueva del Sidrón) is a non-carboniferous limestone karst cave system located in the Piloña municipality of Asturias, north-western Spain, where Paleolithic rock art and the fossils of more than a dozen Neanderthals were found. The total length of this huge complex is approximately 3,700 m (12,100 ft), which contains a central hall of 200 m (660 ft) length and the Neanderthal fossil site, called the Ossuary Gallery which is 28 m (92 ft) long and 12 m (39 ft) wide. Declared "Partial Natural Reserve" in 1995 the site serves as a retreat for five species of bats and is the place of discovery of two species of Coleoptera (beetles).[2]

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