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Prehistoric Fires in a Pyrenees Cave May Reveal One of Europe’s Earliest High-Altitude Copper Mining Sites
Cave 338 sits more than 2,200 meters above sea level in the eastern Pyrenees, where prehistoric visitors left behind fires, bones, ornaments and nearly 200 fragments of green stone. The cave, located near Queralbs in Girona, Spain, close to the French border, may now offer one of the clearest early records of high-altitude copper mineral…