The Balzi Rossi caves (Ligurian: ''baussi rossi'' "red rocks") in

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, is one of the most important archaeological sites of the early

Upper Paleolithic The Upper Paleolithic (or Upper Palaeolithic) is the third and last subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age. Very broadly, it dates to between 50,000 and 12,000 years ago (the beginning of the Holocene), according to some theories coin ...

in Western Europe. *Riparo Mochi remains, evidence for the earliest presence of modern humans in Europe (early Aurignacian, 42,000 years ago). 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, . * Grimaldi Man (Gravettian, c. 25,000 years) * Venus figurines of Balzi Rossi (Gravettian, c. 22,000 years)

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