La Caverna delle Arene Candide - MAF
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The Cave of Arene Candide
A journey through 34,000 years of history, from the entrance of the cave to its most extraordinary discoveries. The great periods of human occupation are traversed — from the earliest Neolithic of northern Italy to late Roman Antiquity — before reaching the funerary heart of the site: the parietal engravings, the Epigravettian necropolis, and the burial of the Young Prince, with his headdress of shells, flint blades, and mammoth ivory pendants. A voyage into the memory of the human communities that inhabited this place overlooking the sea.
The Cave of Arene Candide, on the cliffs of the Caprazoppa Promontory in Liguria, is one of the most important sites for the Prehistory of the north-western Mediterranean. Overlooking the sea at about 90 meters in height, it preserves one of the most complete stratigraphies in Europe, with traces of almost uninterrupted human presence from the Upper Palaeolithic to the Byzantine age. Among its most famous discoveries, the burial of the Young Prince, dating back 28,000 years.
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The Cave of Arene Candide
A journey through 34,000 years of history, from the entrance of the cave to its most extraordinary discoveries. The great periods of human occupation are traversed — from the earliest Neolithic of northern Italy to late Roman Antiquity — before reaching the funerary heart of the site: the parietal engravings, the Epigravettian necropolis, and the burial of the Young Prince, with his headdress of shells, flint blades, and mammoth ivory pendants. A voyage into the memory of the human communities that inhabited this place overlooking the sea.
