!!!Drachenhöhle

Drachenhoehle (Dragon´s Cave), cave near Mixnitz (Styria), 
south-east of Bruck an der Mur, alt. 950 m. Due to a 
shortage of fertilizers the exploitation of the sediments (up to 
12 m thick) was taken up after World War I. The high-quality 
phosphate earth (more than 3 million kg) was the main source 
of the "oesterreichische Hoehlenduenger-Aktion", a campaign to obtain 
fertilizer from caves. In the course of these activities numerous 
bones of cave bears, at first thought to be those of dragons, remains 
of open hearths and Palaeolithic stone tools from the interglacial 
interval between 65,000 and 31,000 B.C. were found. These finds are 
among the earliest traces of human life in Austria.


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