© Emanuele Antonio Minerva/Italian Culture Ministry via APThis image released by the Italian Culture Ministry shows a cave near Rome where fossil findings were discovered, shedding new light on how the Italian peninsula was populated and under what environmental conditions. The Italian Culture Ministry announced the discovery Saturday, May 8, 2021, saying it confirmed that the Guattari Cave in San Felice Circeo, where a Neanderthal skull was discovered in 1939, was "one of the most significant places in the world for the history of Neanderthals."
Italian archaeologists have uncovered the fossilized remains of nine Neanderthals in a cave near Rome, shedding new light on how the Italian peninsula was populated and under what environmental conditions.
The Italian Culture Ministry announced the discovery Saturday, saying it confirmed that the Guattari Cave in San Felice Circeo was "one of the most significant places in the world for the history of Neanderthals."
A Neanderthal skull was discovered in the cave in 1939.The fossilized bones
include skulls, skull fragments, two teeth and other bone fragments. The oldest remains date from between 100,000 and 90,000 years ago, while the other eight Neanderthals are believed to date from 50,000-68,000 years ago, the Culture Ministry said in a statement.
The excavations, begun in 2019, involved a part of the cave that hadn't yet been explored, including a lake first noted by the anthropologist Alberto Carlo Blanc, who is credited with the 1939 Neanderthal skull discovery.
© Google MapsGuattari Cave in San Felice Circeo
© (Emanuele Antonio Minerva/Italian Culture Ministry via AP)This image released by the Italian Culture Ministry shows a cave near Rome where fossil findings were discovered, shedding new light on how the Italian peninsula was populated and under what environmental conditions. The Italian Culture Ministry announced the discovery Saturday, May 8, 2021, saying it confirmed that the Guattari Cave in San Felice Circeo, where a Neanderthal skull was discovered in 1939, was "one of the most significant places in the world for the history of Neanderthals."
© (Emanuele Antonio Minerva/Italian Culture Ministry via AP)This image released by the Italian Culture Ministry shows a fossil jaw that were discovered in a cave near Rome, shedding new light on how the Italian peninsula was populated and under what environmental conditions.
© (Emanuele Antonio Minerva/Italian Culture Ministry via AP)
Culture Minister Dario Franceschini called the finding "an extraordinary discovery that will be the talk of the world."
Anthropologist Mauro Rubini said the large number of remains
suggest a significant population of Neanderthals, "the first human society of which we can speak."
Archaeologists said the cave had perfectly preserved the environment of 50,000 years ago. They noted that
fossilized animal remains found in the cave โ elephant, rhinoceros and giant deer, among others โ shed light on the flora and fauna of the area and its climactic history.
We Aleyandr Filippovich, tsar of Macedon, ruler of the monarchy, depicting the leader of the Greek state, son of the Great Dyabog by Natawan proclaimed Owner of Augustรณw, and the Brahmins and Arbons, from sunrise to West, from South to North (1), the noble race of Slavs and their speaking, peace in the world and health from us and our descendants; who will continue our path of light (2)
Before us, we have always been faithful to the truth, courageous in arms, as our guides and mighty warriors, we give you abundantly for all time, (3) the entire part of the Northern land, up to the border of the last south of Italy and as far as the Persian mountains, (4) it is so that no one dared come there, stay or live there, just leave yours alone. And if some people like to settle down, let them be slaves to you, and let their children be slaves to your sons (5).
It was donated in the city of New Alexandria, which was founded by us on the great Nile River in the second year of our ten reigns, to represent us before the great god Jish, Mars and Pluto, and the goddess Venus. The witnesses of this are the noble Alceta, our chancellor, and the other eleven princes (!), Who, after our death, due to the lack of an act of inheritance, leave us and the whole universe heirs.
This Decree is established as one of the ancient decrees that no other nation in the universe possesses, as evidence of the courage of their ancestors (6).
It should not be strange in the Decree, Slavona, and even Slavony, and Slava (glories) mean glorious and famous, they are all the same essence, as said above: the city of Agria that existed in Dakia was created by the Agrians between the Emma mountains and the Rhodope Mountains adjacent to Macedonia. (7)
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