The human bodies, it will later be established, are more than ten millennia old, and among them are children and infants as well as adults. All show signs of chronic malnutrition. The adults stood little more than five feet tall. The children’s molars were scarcely worn. Slowly, it becomes clear to those who study this mysterious place – now known as Aveline’s Hole – that, far back in the Mesolithic, the cave was used as a cemetery over a period of around a century.
