Our goal was to determine if people had occupied the cave in the past and to obtain a record of the animals that lived in the area in the past. Screening material from Unit 1. Caves are excellent locations to search for animal bones. Caves provide shelter for a wide variety of animals, such as iguanas and tortoises who use the cave to escape the heat of the day. Some of these animals happen to die in the cave, while the carcasses of others are brought by a carnivorous birds who roost in the cave.
Large owls are excellent at sampling the local fauna, especially small birds and reptiles.
In addition, the dry, limestone soils help to preserve the bones of dead animals. Fossil bones from Unit 1. Our excavations were conducted in two areas. The first was two adjacent one-meter squares which were excavated near the cavern entrance. There were no human objects recovered in this area.