Scladina
Sign in to saveScladina, or Sclayn Cave, is an archaeological site located in Wallonia in the town of Sclayn, in the Andenne hills in Belgium, where excavations since 1978 have provided the material for an exhaustive collection of over thirteen thousand Mousterian stone artifacts and the fossilized remains of an especially ancient Neanderthal, called the Scladina child were discovered in 1993.
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- Type
- Archive
- Location
- Andenne, Belgium
- Status
- Active
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Scladina cave site
- Scladina Neanderthal child
- Physiology and development
- Behavior and tool use
- Neanderthal bone tool from a cave lion (''Panthera spelaea'')
- Public education
- See also
- References
- External links
Scladina, or Sclayn Cave, is an archaeological site located in Wallonia in the town of Sclayn, in the Andenne hills in Belgium, where excavations since 1978 have provided the material for an exhaustive collection of over thirteen thousand Mousterian stone artifacts and the fossilized remains of an especially ancient Neanderthal, called the Scladina child were discovered in 1993.
== Scladina cave site == The Scladina cave is located on a hill to the right of the Meuse river bank, south-west of Sclayn village, being one of a number of caves in the middle Meuse river region, where significant paleontological discoveries were made as in the Spy Cave and the Lyell Cave. The caves in the area have undergone systematic exploration since 1949.
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