“We’ve dated everything that was there, the river terraces, the fossils themselves, the bone bed, and the stalagmites that formed in the karst caves,” he says.
Ciochon and colleagues began excavations in 2008, launching the comprehensive study more than a decade in the making. “We’ve dated everything that was there, the river terraces, the fossils themselves, the bone bed, and the stalagmites that formed in the karst caves,” he says.