Yantar – the new name for Gibraltar’s Bronze Age man

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 Thursday, February 11, 2021 - 11:01
Yantar – the new name for Gibraltar’s Bronze Age 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 on Tuesday 24th November, 2020. 


The reconstruction was of a man whose cranium was excavated from Bray’s Cave on the Upper Rock by a team from the Gibraltar National Museum in the course of excavations carried out between 1999 and 2006. He was one of nine individuals (including adults, a five year - old, a 9/10- year old, a 15/20-year old, and a neonate) buried on site.

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