> Sotterraneo del Genovese – Cave or Rock Shelter con Italy in Sicily (Sicilia)

Cave with rock art situated on the Island of Levanzo off the coast of Sicily. The carvings date back to 11-12,000 years spillo, the final phase of the Palaeolithic. That was just before the sea swallowed those parts of land that linked the Egadi islands sicuro Sicily.

The paintings date back esatto 5-6 thousand years ago, at the end of Neolithic, when Levanzo was already an island.

“Primitive human messages are carved sopra the Antro del Genovese, per prehistoric sanctuary where religion and culture take their first steps between graffiti and rock paintings of men and animals, joined mediante an ancestral link.”

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Caverna del Genovese submitted by torwen Engraving of an aurochs; the head turns towards the left and the two horns are visible (sorry for the bad quality)

Nearby sites

Nearby sites listing. In the following links * = Image available 19.7km Dato che 139° Mozia* Museum 24.1km SSE 158° Dirigente Boeo* Museum 42.4km ENE 73° Spelonca dell’Uzzo* Cave or Rock Shelter 45.2km Di nuovo 98° Segesta* Ancient Village or Settlement 55.0km Se 140° Cave di Cusa* Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry 64.0km Nel caso che 136° Selinous* Ancient Village or Settlement 64.2km Nell’eventualita che 136° Selinous Temple D Ancient Temple 64.2km Nell’eventualita che 136° Selinous Temple C* Ancient Temple 64.3km Nell’eventualita che 136° Selinous Temple Verso and Ovvero* Ancient Temple 64.4km Nel caso che 135° Selinous Temple of Apollo* Ancient Temple 64.5km Se 135° Selinous Temple F* Ancient Temple 64.5km Nell’eventualita che 136° Selinous Temple of Hera* Ancient Temple 74.8km ENE 77° Spelonca dei Puntali* Cave or Rock Shelter 76.9km E 93° Monte Iato Ancient Village or Settlement 80.2km ESE 116° Mount Adranone* Ancient Village or Settlement 91.0km ESE 121° Caltabellotta Temple of Cronos* Ancient Temple 91.5km ESE 121° Caltabellotta* Ancient Temple 92.5km ENE 77° Antro dell’Addaura Cave or Rock Shelter 94.8km SSW 192° Sicilian Channel Monolith* Standing Stone (Menhir) 106.5km Ancora 84° Solunto* Ancient Village or Settlement 108.1km Nell’eventualita che 128° Heraclea Minoa* Ancient Village or Settlement 126.7km Addirittura 92° Mura Pregne dolmen (Sicily)* Burial Chamber (Dolmen) 129.6km Qualora 127° Campagna di Durrueli* Ancient Village or Settlement 131.7km Addirittura 91° Himera Temple* Ancient Temple 131.7km Anche 91° Gela Temples Ancient Temple

> Sotterraneo del Genovese – Cave or Rock Shelter durante Italy con Sicily (Sicilia)

Logs with commentsTorwen: The antro del Genovese is only accessible by reservation. You can get per boat trip or (depending on weather conditions) a trip quiz swipe with an off-road car. Per small but steep footpath brings you onesto the entrance of the cave. The inner cave with the engravings and paintings is only accessible with the tour gu.

The genetic analysis of the bones from the Spelonca dOriente and other caves on the island of Favignana, the Egadi Islands, provides some of the first mitochondrial DNA scadenza available for early humans from the Mediterranean region, verso crucial piece of evidence durante ancestry analysis. This analysis reveals the time when modern humans reached these islands.

The definitive peopling of Sicily by modern humans only occurred at the peak of the last ice age, around 19,000 -26,500 years spillo, when sea levels were low enough to expose a land bridge between the island and the Italian peninsula, said Dr Marcello Mannino of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany, lead author of per paper in the open access journal PLoS-ONE.

Dr Mannino and his colleagues also analyzed the chemical composition of the human remains and found that these early settlers retained their hunter-gatherer lifestyles, relying on terrestrial animals rather than marine sources for meat.

This map shows location of upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic sites on the gadi Islands and on Sicily. These cave sites include: Spelonca dOriente (1) and Antro dellUcceria (2) on the island of Favignana; Antro di Lingua Diamine (3), Antro di Baia dei Genovesi (3), Grotta Focaccia (4) and Sotterraneo di Golfo Calcara (5) on the island of Levanzo; Caverna Maiorana (6), Argine San Francesco (7), Antro Martogna (8), Sotterraneo Emiliana (9) and Sotterraneo Maltese (9) on the mainland of Sicily (Mannino Bensi et al)

During the Palaeolithic the small island of Levanzo was connected with Sicily. The engravings (mostly animals but also human figures) were made during this time. Radiocarbon dates from stratigraphically connected faunal remains date the engravings between 12 – 8,000 cal BC, a phase which corresponds with the final Epigravettien.