<a href="https://rss.com/podcasts/the-sleepkeeper/voicemail">Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note.</a>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.· · ·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 the coast.Fires are tended. Flint is worked. Children learn by watching. Seasons change, the tide comes and goes, and life continues at the slow rhythm of a landscape now hidden beneath the sea.· · ·If these evenings have become part of how you end the day, follow along so the next one finds you. A rating or a few words, whenever you happen to, is how the next tired person finds their way to a place like this.Narration on this channel is AI-assisted. The research, writing, and shaping of each evening are done by hand.Sleep well, friend.· · ·sleep story · Neanderthals · prehistoric history · Gorham's Cave · Gibraltar · human prehistory · bedtime story for adults · ancient history · relaxing history · fall asleep to history

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