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Submitted by coldrum on Sunday, 17 November 2013  Page Views: 6654

Natural PlacesSite Name: Grotta del Genovese Alternative Name: Cave of Genovese
Country: Italy
NOTE: This site is 18.847 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Sicily (Sicilia) Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Nearest Town: Levanzo
Latitude: 38.001880N  Longitude: 12.321930E
Condition:
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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5 Access:
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4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
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1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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Torwen visited on 12th Jul 2012 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4 The grotta del Genovese is only accessible by reservation. You can get a boat trip or (depending on weather conditions) a trip with an off-road car. A small but steep footpath brings you to the entrance of the cave. The inner cave with the engravings and paintings is only accessible with the tour guide (costs 22.50 Euro per Person - July 2012). Contact forms via http://www.grottadelgenovese.it/ENG/index.htm

Grotta del Genovese
Grotta del Genovese submitted by torwen : Late Neolithic paintings with stylised figures (females) holding domesticated animals with a cord, fish, and male stick figures. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Cave with rock art situated on the Island of Levanzo off the coast of Sicily. The carvings date back to 11-12,000 years ago, the final phase of the Palaeolithic. That was just before the sea swallowed those parts of land that linked the Egadi islands to Sicily.

The paintings date back to 5-6 thousand years ago, at the end of Neolithic, when Levanzo was already an island.

"Primitive human messages are carved in the Grotta del Genovese, a prehistoric sanctuary where religion and culture take their first steps between graffiti and rock paintings of men and animals, joined in an ancestral link."

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Note: Study reveals origins and food habits of the first Sicilians
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Grotta del Genovese
Grotta del Genovese submitted by torwen : Late Neolithic Paintings with pig/boar, stylised figures, fish, and weapons (Vote or comment on this photo)

Grotta del Genovese
Grotta del Genovese submitted by torwen : Engraving of an aurochs; the head turns towards the left and the two horns are visible (sorry for the bad quality) (Vote or comment on this photo)

Grotta del Genovese
Grotta del Genovese submitted by torwen : Entrance to the inner grotta with wall engravings and paintings (Vote or comment on this photo)

Grotta del Genovese
Grotta del Genovese submitted by durhamnature : Wild Ass, height 25cm, from "Art of the Stone Age" via archive.org (Vote or comment on this photo)

Grotta del Genovese
Grotta del Genovese submitted by torwen : The 'antegrotta' with semi-circular dry-stone wall

Grotta del Genovese
Grotta del Genovese submitted by torwen : Entrance of the 'antegrotta'

Grotta del Genovese
Grotta del Genovese submitted by torwen : View of the Grotta del Genovese arriving from the sea

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Re: Grotta del Genovese by Anonymous on Monday, 17 January 2022
Name: Ann Genovese



I surprised my late husband with a trip to the Egadi and a surprise visit to the Grotta del Genovese for our 30th anniversary many years ago. I believe only 2 other people had visited that year. His parents were from Vulguanera Caropepe and he had never visited Sicily. To us it was a magic time made even more so by the exquisite cave, so untouched, primitive and memorable.
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Study Reveals Origins and Food Habits of First Sicilians by bat400 on Wednesday, 06 November 2013
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Analysis of skeletal remains found in an island cave in Favignana, Italy, has revealed that modern humans first settled in Sicily around the time of the last Ice Age and despite living on islands, ate little seafood.

The genetic analysis of the bones from the Grotta d’Oriente and other caves on the island of Favignana, the Egadi Islands, provides some of the first mitochondrial DNA data available for early humans from the Mediterranean region, a crucial piece of evidence in ancestry analysis. This analysis reveals the time when modern humans reached these islands.

“The definitive peopling of Sicily by modern humans only occurred at the peak of the last ice age, around 19,000 -26,500 years ago, when sea levels were low enough to expose a land bridge between the island and the Italian peninsula,” said Dr Marcello Mannino of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany, lead author of a paper in the open access journal PLoS-ONE.

Dr Mannino and his colleagues also analyzed the chemical composition of the human remains and found that these early settlers retained their hunter-gatherer lifestyles, relying on terrestrial animals rather than marine sources for meat.

This map shows location of upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic sites on the Ègadi Islands and on Sicily. These cave sites include: Grotta d’Oriente (1) and Grotta dell’Ucceria (2) on the island of Favignana; Grotta di Punta Capperi (3), Grotta di Cala dei Genovesi (3), Grotta Schiacciata (4) and Grotta di Cala Calcara (5) on the island of Levanzo; Grotta Maiorana (6), Riparo San Francesco (7), Grotta Martogna (8), Grotta Emiliana (9) and Grotta Maltese (9) on the mainland of Sicily (Mannino MA et al)

Thanks to coldrum for the link. For more, see http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/
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Re: Grotta del Genovese by Torwen on Friday, 20 July 2012
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N 38.00188° E 12.32193° 38 m asl (Garmin GPSMap 62s) [Updated]

During the Palaeolithic the small island of Levanzo was connected with Sicily. The engravings (mostly animals but also human figures) were made during this time. Radiocarbon dates from stratigraphically connected faunal remains date the engravings between 12 - 8,000 cal BC, a phase which corresponds with the final Epigravettien.

During the late Neolithic Levanzo was completely separated from Sicily. The same cave walls were used for paintings in black (charcoal) and red (ochre). Again animals (this time domesticated animals) and human figures were depicted.
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