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Fall Asleep to a Year with the Neanderthals | Sleep Story
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Before the sea reached the cliffs of Gibraltar, a wide coastal plain stretched beyond a cave where Neanderthals had lived for generations.
A long, slow one. There's no ending you need to reach, and nothing you'll miss if you drift off partway.
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Tonight: spend a quiet year with a small Neanderthal group living at Gorham's Cave around 40,000 years ago. Follow them down to the shore for mussels and limpets, across the summer plain and its marshes, beneath autumn pines heavy with cones, and back inside as the winter rains settle over…
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