The largest collection of Neanderthal remains comes from an 820-foot-long series of underground galleries called the Goyet Caves, which pierce the base of a 50-foot-tall limestone cliff in central Belgium. The caves were first explored scientifically in 1872. Since then, thousands of artifacts and human skeletal remains have been recovered from them, providing evidence of an unbroken span of tens of thousands of years of habitation. Within this vast quantity of finds, which include 101 Neanderth
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