Gorham's Cave

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The Gorham's Cave is a 40 m long in the front area spacious cave in the coastal mountains of Gibraltar, whose output provides a wide view. In the back of a narrow corridor which leads into a kind of tomb runs.

The Gorham's Cave is an important archaeological site, because it was inhabited for thousands of Neanderthals during the Stone Age. Found knife blades, scrapers for processing fur, bones, shells, among other remains of turtles, seals, dolphins, and pine nuts.

Several charcoal residues are according to measurements by Clive Finlayson, director of the Gibraltar Museum 28,000 years old. The researchers estimate due to the Fund situation that a group of about 15 Neanderthals inhabited the cave. These are the youngest ever discovered remains of Neanderthals in their last refuge, the Iberian peninsula.

The most recent sample was dated to 23,360 years ± 320 years. Whether it's like the one involved in the excavation British paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer says to is the "last outpost " of the Neanderthals before their extinction, but is open. The last finding could also be a bonfire of modern man (Homo sapiens) originate.

A total of eight sites are known on the Rock of Gibraltar, where Neanderthal tools and food scraps left behind. The first skull of a Neanderthal was found in a quarry in 1848 Gibraltarians.