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Multi-periodSite Name: Ciampate Del Diavolo Alternative Name: Devil's TrailsCountry: Italy
NOTE: This site is 390.05 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Lazio/Roma Type: Ancient Trackway
Nearest Town: Turoro/Foresto Nearest Village: Piccilli
Latitude: 6.329050N Longitude: 14.024900E
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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The Ciampate del Diavolo (Neapolitan: "Devil's Footprints" or "Devil's Trails") is a locality near the extinct Roccamonfina volcano in northern Campania, Italy. It is named after fossilised footprints preserved in pyroclastic flow deposits that have been dated to around 350,000 years ago. They have been attributed to bipedal hominids, possibly Homo heidelbergensis, which is known to have inhabited the region at the time.
The footprints comprise three sets of tracks indicating that three hominids made their way down a steep slope on the flank of the volcano, away from the crater. The tracks were preserved under a layer of volcanic ash and were revealed by erosion, probably in the late 18th to early 19th century. Local people attributed the prints to the Devil as they regarded him as the only being capable of walking on lava without harm. They were identified as hominid footprints after archaeologists examined them in 2002 and are the second oldest set of hominid footprints known outside Africa, after the Happisburgh footprints.
Update January 2026. For more information, see the following information:
Corpo Celeste, "Le Ciampate del diavolo";
Owl Connected, "Tracks of time! Tracing the origin of ancient volcano footprints, 10th January 2022";
Historic Mysteries, "Prehistoric Human and Animal Tracks at Roccamonfina, Italy, 25th October 2018"; and
Science Direct, "Walking along the oldest human fossil pathway (Roccamonfina volcano, Central Italy)?, 20th April 2017".
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