The Barma Grande cave (Grimaldi, Vintimiglia, Italy): From Neandertal, hunter of 鈥?span style='font-style: italic'>Elephas antiquus鈥?/span>, to Sapiens with ornaments of mammoth ivory
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In 1884 the Barma Grande cave (Grimaldi, Ventimiglia, Italy) entered history following the research of L.聽Jullien and S. Bonfils who discovered, buried at a depth of 8.4聽m, a grave dating from the Upper Paleolithic: 鈥?em>le nouvel homme de Menton鈥? Subsequently, there were the excavations by the quarry-worker Abbo and his sons, which revealed new burials, including a triple burial which included ornaments crafted from mammoth ivory (discovered in 1892) and remnants of a late 鈥淓lephas antiquus鈥?/em> in a Mousterian level. Starting in 1928, the research of A. Mochi, G.A. Blanc and L. Cardini highlighted the site鈥檚 stratigraphy: at the base, a Tyrrhenian marine level (MIS 5.5); above, a long continental sequence from the middle Paleolithic including several Mousterian hearths with a fauna composed of large mammals, including the remains of 鈥?em>E. antiquus鈥?/em>.

The study of the material of the Bonfils excavations, preserved at the Mus茅e de Pr茅histoire R茅gionale of Menton, and of the Abbo excavations preserved at the Balzi Rossi Museum allowed attribution of all of the graves to the early and middle Gravettian level with its 鈥渇l茅chettes鈥? Moreover, in the highest sequence of the site (MIS 2), mammoth bone remains have been found, as well as ivory funerary ornaments in the triple burial and in the burial known as of "l鈥檋omme aux jambes crois茅es". Although very rare, there are sporadic mammoth remains in some sites in Liguria, but it is primarily in western Gravettian hunter sites in the low valley of the Rh么ne that this animal is well represented. The sites were on the road for zoned flint (Stampien), a material that was both exotic and prestigious, constituting a funerary offering given by the Gravettians of Liguria. The 鈥淓. antiquus鈥?/em> of the lower levels (MIS 3 to 5), present in the Mousterian levels, not only indicates the persistence of this animal until MIS 3 (when it took refuge in Provence and Liguria), but provided material for tools made from elephant ivory by the last Neandertal hunters.

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