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. It has been continually excavated by archaeologists for more than 150 years.^[1]

• Riparo Mochi remains evidence for the earliest presence of modern humans in Europe (early Aurignacian, 42,000 years ago).^[2]
• Grimaldi Man (Gravettian, c. 25,000 years)
• Venus figurines of Balzi Rossi (Gravettian, c. 22,000 years)

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