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Ils n’étaient pas de véritables troglodytes, bien qu’au cours des âges ultérieurs, les nappes glaciaires plus tardives progressant vers le sud eussent forcé leurs descendants à se réfugier dans des cavernes.
They were not really cave dwellers either, though in subsequent times the later ice sheets came farther south and drove their descendants to the caves.
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