“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 ...

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, ...