Emily Chan
Among the decorated bones was the phalanx of an aurochs, an extinct species of giant cattle. It was engraved with a depiction of the animal.
It is unlikely that the cave-dwelling at La Garma was used as permanent shelter. Arias states that Paleolithic people constantly moved from one place to another, traveling in small groups.
“We are quite sure that such a thing did not exist at that time,” he said. “Of course, there were some sites where they probably stayed for longer periods, or that served as some kind of aggregation sites, where different groups gathered for special occasions, and La Garma might have been one of them, but I would not speak of permanent residences.”
