Qualla: Cova Foradà https://qualla.com/cova-forada en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:38:46 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Cova Foradà https://qualla.com/cova-forada Cova Foradà: Introduction https://qualla.com/cova-forada/ One of the people who sheltered in this cave was in real pain. His gums were inflamed, his teeth badly worn, and the sockets had pulled away from the bone. So he did what a person in that kind of discomfort does: he found a small pointed tool and worked at the sore spots, leaving two faint grooves on the surviving teeth that survived him by tens of thousands of years. He was a Neanderthal, and his jaw is one of the oldest hints that our ancient cousins tried to treat their own aches.

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/y/z/v/cova-forada-wp/eyzv-cova-forad-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Cova Foradà: A Neanderthal with a Toothache https://qualla.com/cova-forada/ The evidence is a nearly complete upper jaw, a maxilla, recovered along with other fragments between 2000 and 2003. It belonged to an adult who died somewhere between 35 and 45 years old, and it tells a small, vivid story of chronic suffering. The bone shows periodontal disease a...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/y/z/v/cova-forada-wp/eyzv-cova-forad-a-neanderthal-with-a-toothache.mp3 0:06 2 full Cova Foradà: The Most Complete of All https://qualla.com/cova-forada/ Then, in 2010, on the very spot where the jaw had emerged, excavators uncovered something rarer still: an almost complete Neanderthal skeleton, its bones still articulated along the spine. It is the most complete Neanderthal skeleton ever found on the Iberian peninsula. That comp...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/y/z/v/cova-forada-wp/eyzv-cova-forad-the-most-complete-of-all.mp3 0:06 3 full Cova Foradà: Between Mountain and Lagoon https://qualla.com/cova-forada/ The setting explains why anyone lived here at all. Cova Forada is a karst cave about five kilometers southeast of the town of Oliva and only three and a half kilometers from the Mediterranean, tucked into a low rise among the hills known as the Muntanyetes de Oliva, where the Ser...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/y/z/v/cova-forada-wp/eyzv-cova-forad-between-mountain-and-lagoon.mp3 0:06 4 full Cova Foradà: Reading the Bones https://qualla.com/cova-forada/ Systematic excavation began in 1977, led by the archaeologist Jose Aparicio Perez for the provincial government of Valencia, and the cave has been giving up its secrets ever since. The remains are not only of adults. Among the fragments recovered was a molar from a very young chi...

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