Research
Ice Age camp reveals hunter-gatherers reached Italy thousands of years earlier than previously thought
Phys.org ·
The Brief
- A fresh excavation of the eastern deposit at Riparo Mochi, a rock shelter near the French–Italian border, has been reported.
- The new work pushes back the timeline for when Ice Age hunter-gatherers from Spain first entered Italy.
- The source describes the arrival as thousands of years earlier than previously thought.
Why it matters
It revises when Ice Age hunter-gatherers first reached Italy, which bears on how scientists reconstruct early human migration into southern Europe.
Who’s affected
- archaeologists and Palaeolithic researchers
- readers interested in human migration history
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A fresh excavation of the eastern deposit at Riparo Mochi, a rock shelter near today's French–Italian border, has pushed back the timeline for when Ice Age hunter-gatherers from Spain first entered Italy.