Balzi Rossi

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)