Provenance Record

Rich, carefully-hedged archaeology News piece (758 words) that distinguishes the confirmed finds from the preliminary malachite identification, with disciplined primary-source citation.

All 4 snapshots read from disk (HTTP 200). source-0 (Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology paper) confirms Cave 338, the 2,235 m altitude, the 6 m² ('six square meters') excavation, the 170+ green-mineral fragments, the malachite/copper-carbonate preliminary identification, and every radiocarbon date (NA 3 3,464–2,532 cal BC, NA 2 1,109–908 cal BC, earlier 5,000–4,360 cal BC). source-1 (Frontiers press release) confirms the 23 hearths, the Carlos Tornero (Catalan Institute) lead, the malachite-preliminary and Montes-Landa 'thermally altered' quotes, the University of Granada affiliation, the child finger-bone/baby-tooth (~11 years), the brown-bear-tooth pendant, and the 'marginal' and 'short to medium' quotes. source-2 (ScienceDaily) confirms the ~2,000-year span and the Tornero 'two pendants' quote. source-3 (Smithsonian) confirms the thermally-altered-fragments framing.

Every radiocarbon date and specific traces verbatim to the primary Frontiers paper (Rule 9), and every quote is verbatim and correctly attributed (Tornero, Montes-Landa). '6 m²' is rendered as 'six square meters' (unit spelled out). The agent correctly omitted the paper's internally inconsistent EC1–EC21 combustion-structure numbering.

High-quality, fully-verified archaeology submission with model primary-source discipline. APPROVE — the single automated warning is a verified false positive.