200,000 years of hominid use !!!! That just is too hard to grasp...I thought the hand print in the 26,000 year old French cave we visited had ghosts of eternity gathering about - it seemed an incredible connection as if done yesterday
....this time frame is something else again.

For 200,000 years—an almost inconceivable amount of time to the human imagination—the cave served as a sort of Paleolithic base camp, one whose legacy of home cooking and domesticity would offer archaeologists of a much later age a fascinating window into the dawn of humanity's use of fire.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... y-science/

several lifetimes of work in that marvelous find to tease out its secrets.

Fascinating!

And no windows. Imagine the smell for the occupant in the eight or ten tousandth generation.