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    Gough's Cave (/ɡɒf/ GOF) is located in Cheddar Gorge on the Mendip Hills, in Cheddar, Somerset, England. The cave is 115 m (377 ft) deep and is 3.405 km...
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    Cheddar Gorge (redirect from Cheddar Caves)
    down the gorge, damaging the cafe and entrance to Gough's Cave and washing away cars. In the cave itself the flooding lasted for three days. In 2012...
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    Cheddar Man is a human male skeleton found in Gough's Cave in Cheddar Gorge, Somerset, England. The skeletal remains date to around the mid-to-late 9th...
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    needles. Unusual bevelled ivory rods, known as sagaies have been found at Gough's Cave in Somerset and Kent's Cavern in Devon. Twenty eight sites producing...
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    largest gorge in the United Kingdom and includes several show caves, including Gough's Cave. The gorge has been a centre of human settlement since Neolithic...
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    Cro-Magnon (section Cave art)
    Magdalenian of Gough's Cave, England. Further concrete evidence of such rituals does not appear until after the Palaeolithic. The Gough's Cave cup seems to...
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    oldest directly dated skull cup at 14,700 cal BP (12,750 BC) comes from Gough's Cave, Somerset, England. Skulls used as containers can be distinguished from...
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    its archaeology and caves. Archaeology of Wales Barnfield Pit Bontnewydd Palaeolithic site Boxgrove Quarry Creswell Crags Gough's Cave Happisburgh Kents...
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    hunted Neanderthals and in this way contributed to their extinction. In Gough's Cave, England, remains of human bones and skulls, around 14,700 years old...
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    Cathole Cave in Swansea County dated at 14,500BP, Creswell Crags on the border between Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire at 12,800BP and Gough's Cave in Somerset...
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    silt. The Cheddar Man, Britain's oldest complete skeleton, was found in Gough's Cave, part of the Cheddar Complex. Within the Mendip Hills AONB, good evidence...
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    of the Mendip Hills before reappearing in Gough's Cave before emerging into Cheddar Gorge. Within Gough's Cave the river forms the largest underground river...
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    UK are Happisburgh, Pakefield, Pontnewydd, Kents Cavern, Paviland and Gough's Cave. Genetic history of the British Isles List of human evolution fossils...
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    "Investigating the use of Paleolithic perforated batons: new evidence from Gough's Cave (Somerset, UK)". Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 11 (10):...
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    Kents Cavern (category Caves of Devon)
    Pakefield, Boxgrove, Swanscombe, Pontnewydd, Paviland, Creswell Crags and Gough's Cave. A prehistoric upper jawbone (maxilla) fragment was discovered in the...
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    in the UK include Swanscombe, Pontnewydd, Kents Cavern, Paviland, and Gough's Cave. The site is close to a fossil shoreline that has interglacial mammal...
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    around Cheddar. The catchment area of the Cheddar Yeo, which rises in Gough's Cave, measures 54 km2 (20.8 sq mi). Dye marking shows that some of the water...
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    Upper Paleolithic, is a widespread phenomenon, much less well known than the cave-paintings of the Upper Paleolithic, with which it makes an interesting contrast...
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    Retrieved 2014-05-19. Stringer, C. B. (1985). "The hominid remains from Gough's Cave" (PDF). Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society...
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    Bones from Gough's Cave have been dated to 12,000 BCE, and a complete skeleton, known as Cheddar Man, dates from 7150 BCE. Examples of cave art have been...
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  • a female from Gough’s Cave, an individual who is genetically similar to the c. 15,000 year old individual ('Goyet-Q2') from Goyet Caves, Belgium. The...
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  • deaths, perhaps even their extinction. Human bones and skulls found in Gough's Cave in Somerset, England, show that around 15,000 years ago, ritual cannibalism...
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    down the gorge and damaged the cafe and entrance to Gough's Cave, washing away cars. In the cave itself the flooding lasted for three days. A Spanish...
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  • Father Foote's Cave Fingal's Cave Flood Entrance Pot Gaping Gill Gavel Pot GB Cave Giant's Hole Goatchurch Cavern Gough's Cave Great Douk Cave Great Masson...
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    Underground: A Caver's Guide (5th ed.). Wells: Mendip Cave Registry and Archive. pp. 397, 434. ISBN 9780953131051. "Thrupe Lane Swallet". Mendip Cave Registry...
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    recovered from Sewell's Cave, Flixton, Seamer Carr, Uxbridge and Thatcham. Remains dating from around 7,000 BC have been found in Gough's Cave in Cheddar. Although...
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    Gough's reputation had been vindicated. After further lobbying (in part by Master of the Rolls Wilfred Greene, a former major on Gough's staff) Gough...
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    Wookey Hole Caves (/ˈwʊki/) are a series of limestone caverns, a show cave and tourist attraction in the village of Wookey Hole on the southern edge of...
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    material at Gough’s Cave (also found at other Magdalenian culture sites such as Brillenhöhle and Hohle Fels in Germany and Maszycka Cave in Poland) has...
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