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Caves and archaeological site in Italy
43°47′02″N 7°32′02″E / 43.784°N 7.534°E / 43.784; 7.534
The Balzi Rossi caves (Ligurian: baussi rossi "red rocks") in Ventimiglia comune, Liguria, Italy, is one of the most important archaeological sites of the early Upper Paleolithic in Western Europe.
- Riparo Mochi remains evidence for the earliest presence of modern humans in Europe (early Aurignacian, 42,000 years ago).[1]
- Grimaldi Man (Gravettian, c. 25,000 years)
- Venus figurines of Balzi Rossi (Gravettian, c. 22,000 years)
References
- ^ Katerina Douka et al., A new chronostratigraphic framework for the Upper Palaeolithic of Riparo Mochi (Italy), Journal of Human Evolution 62(2), 19 December 2011, 286-299, doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2011.11.009.