In the cave of El Mirón in northern Spain, intrigue surrounds a woman who was laid to rest there 19,000 years ago. Her bones, coated in an earthy shade of red derived from the natural pigment ochre, ...

“These were the people whose range had contracted southward during the climate crisis [of the Ice Age] and who preceded the Red Lady of El Mirón and contributed to her DNA,” Straus adde ...