Thousand years old Bronze age Gibraltar man

Thousand years old Bronze age Gibraltar man

Minister for the Environment, Sustainability, Climate Change, Heritage and Culture, Professor John Cortes unveiled a reconstruction of the head of a Bronze Age man from Gibraltar. 


The reconstruction is of a man whose cranium was excavated from Bray’s Cave on the Upper Rock by a team from the Gibraltar National Museum at the beginning of this century. Nine individuals were discovered including adults, a five-year old, a 9/10 year old, a 15/20 year old and a neonate buried on site. The burials were dated to between 1,496 and 1,900 BCE which is approximately 3.5 to 4 thousand years ago.

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