The Gravettian burial known as the Prince (“Il Principe”): new evidence for his age and diet

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  • P. B. Pettitt
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“Il Principe” (the Prince) is the nickname given to a spectacular Mid Upper Palaeolithic (Gravettian) burial discovered at Arene Candide, Italy in 1942. Arene Candide is a large cave located about 90 m above sea level on the slope of the Caprazoppa promontory, along the Ligurian coast near Finale Ligure (Savona, Italy). The cave is named after a dune of white siliceous sand of aeolian origin, banked against the wall of the promontory, today destroyed by quarrying activity. Systematic excavation of its rich deposit was carried out at the beginning of the 1940’s by Bernabò Brea and Cardini who exposed a stratigraphic sequence which ranged from the Upper Palaeolithic to historical times and included many burials of Late Epigravettian and Neolithic date (Bernabò Brea, 1946; Cardini 198

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تاریخ انتشار 2005