prehistoric mining

Inside Hallstatt’s Salt Mountain, Iron Age Miners Left a 300-Meter Underground Archive

Exploratory drilling in Austria’s prehistoric Hallstatt salt mine has identified an extensive Iron Age mining complex made up of enormous chambers arranged beside and above…

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…