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| Approaching Vela Luka | ||
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| Vela Spila is 120m above the village | ||
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| The "L" shaped harbour is well protected | ||
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| En route to the Vela Spila | ||
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| Entrance to the cave - walking into the past (current to Bronze Age) | ||
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| Looking back to the entrance from Neolithic levels. | ||
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| Monster face in the roof. | ||
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| Bones of 5 animals for handling display | ||
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| These strata are layers of dung showing the cave was used by pastoralists in the Neolithic who burnt the dung each season before use. | ||
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| Sediment layers show almost continuous cave use by humans for the last 25,000 years. | ||
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| People in this image illustrate the enormous size of the cave. | ||
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| View from cave entrance: 25k years ago the sea was 22 kilometers away. | ||
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