Deep inside Des Cubierta Cave, beyond the zones suited for sleeping or toolmaking, Neanderthals returned again and again to leave something behind. Not hearths. Not butchered meals. Skulls.1
Over tens of thousands of years, they carried the horned heads of large herbivores into a confined chamber and placed them there, one accumulation layered upon another. A new study from central Spain argues that this was not accident or geology, but practice. Repeated, selective, and remembered.
