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Does a cave beneath Pembroke Castle hold key to fate of early Britons?
Scientists hope wealth of prehistoric material in Wogan Cavern in Wales is well preserved enough to reveal what really happened to our most ancient ancestors
A cave, known as Wogan Cavern, which lies directly underneath Pembroke Castle, has been found to contain a treasure trove of prehistoric material, including ancient bones and stone tools left behind by early Homo sapiensand possibly by Neanderthals. Photograph: Getty ImagesThe technique was developed several years ago by scientists based at Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and has already demonstrated its striking sensitivity in a cave system known as Galería de las Estatuas, in northern Spain. It is unclear why this replacement occurred but the discovery clearly demonstrates the power of modern genetic analysis which, using DNA from blood and excrement left behind by the occupants of a cave, it was possible to reveal population movements 100,000 years later.
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