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About 176,000 years ago, Neanderthals built enormous rings from broken stone formations 336 meters inside a French cave — more than two tonnes of material arranged in total darkness for a purpose archaeologists still cannot explain - Space Daily

SpacedailySeptember 14, 2026
About 176,000 years ago, Neanderthals built enormous rings from broken stone formations 336 meters inside a French cave — more than two tonnes of material arranged in total darkness for a purpose archaeologists still cannot explain - Space Daily
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Two and a bit tonnes of snapped rock, stacked into neat circles, in a chamber that has never once seen daylight. Nobody has worked out why. Bruniquel Cave sits above the Aveyron gorges in the Tarn-…

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