These, if they exist, would be fossil traces of black holes from the pre-Big Bang version of reality.
In addition to discovering fossil remains, including a skeleton of the giant cave bear, he found implements characteristic of the later Paleolithic Period and traces of black and dark-red pigments.
The discovery of this cemetery some two centuries after it was last used provided just such a foundation, disclosing not just a few beads, pins and buttons, but offering the first large-scale traces of black American experience in this region.
Arresting as it was, nothing in that movie could have given us any clue to this quite extraordinary followup: utterly distinctive and all but unclassifiable, a musique concrète nightmare, a psycho-metaphysical implosion of anxiety, with strange-tasting traces of black comedy and movie-buff riffs.
In her biography, Dusty, Lucy O'Brien quotes Jerry Wexler, who produced Dusty in Memphis along with Arif Mardin, talking about the uniqueness of her sound: "There were no traces of black in her singing, she's not mimetic… She has a pure silvery stream".
The band kept a similar sound on their second album, Cries of the Past, featuring occasional traces of black metal, but the band later moved away from this style to embrace a more melodic-leaning post-hardcore sound.
This data, along with the tracing of blacks' ancestry through DNA tests, is giving us a fuller understanding of the identities of both the victims and the facilitators of the African slave trade.
Even if it holds no trace of life, Black Beauty has plenty to captivate scientists.
