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7 haunting caves ancient humans used for art, burials and butcheringFrom stunning artwork to evidence of elaborate prehistoric butchering, Live Science takes a look at seven amazing caves that contain archaeological remains.
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35,000-year-old 'tortoise shell' carving may be Holy Land's oldest evidence of ritual behaviorA carved boulder found deep in a cave in Israel may have been used for rituals more than 35,000 years ago.
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Marble Caves: Chile's ethereal turquoise caverns with 'mineral ice cream' on the wallsThe Marble Caves sit on the shores of a turquoise glacial lake in southern Chile. Light bounces off the water onto the walls, creating a magical, ever-changing display inside the caverns.
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Hang Son Doong: The world's biggest cave, so 'outrageous in size' it fits 2 jungles and the 'Great Wall of Vietnam'Vietnam's Son Doong cave is so large, you could squeeze 15 Great Pyramids of Giza inside it and fly a Boeing 747 airplane through some of its passages.
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Cave of Swimmers: 9,000-year-old rock art of people swimming in what's now the arid SaharaThis series of paintings, found inside a cave in the Sahara, shows a pair of swimmers.
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16,000-year-old skeleton, crystals and stone tools discovered in Malaysian cavesArchaeologists think the earliest skeleton from the Malaysian excavation may be up to 16,000 years old.
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Ancient submerged bridge in Spain reveals that humans inhabited Mediterranean island nearly 6,000 years agoAfter analyzing a submerged bridge found in a Spanish cave, researchers have determined that humans inhabited the area earlier than previously thought.
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Fairy Chimneys: The stone spires in Turkey that form 'the world's most unusual high-rise neighborhood'Turkey's magical "fairy chimneys" in Cappadocia were carved out of an ancient volcanic landscape over millions of years before humans turned them into hiding dens.
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500-year-old lion drawing in Puerto Rican cave may have been made by an enslaved AfricanThere were no lions in 16th-century Puerto Rico — so was the cave drawing made by someone who'd actually seen one?
