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Approximate age:43,500 years old=average of minimum (0.0422 Ma) and maximum (0.0448 Ma)

Date based on: Radiocarbon, ESR See map of sites with similar ages

Dating reference: Higham T, et al. (2009) Problems with radiocarbon dating the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic transition in Italy. Quat Sci Rev 28:1257–1267.; Peresani M, et al. (2008) Age of the final Middle Palaeolithic and Uluzzian levels at Fumane Cave, Northern Italy, using 14C, ESR, 234U/230Th and thermoluminescence methods. J Archaeol Sci 35:2986–2996.

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Archaeology:Mousterian      

Important specimens: Cut marks on of use of feathers by Neanderthals. Aurignacian levels have purported earliest known cave paintings, but this are not necessarily associated with Neanderthals.

Notes: Grotte di Fumane website
No hominids known-association of bird bones with Neanderthals is stratigraphic
Cut marks on the distal end of a right ulna of Gypaetus barbatus, humerus of red-footed falcon Falco vespertinus, carpometacarpus of common wood pigeon Columba palumbus, ulna of Alpine chough Pyrrocorax graculus, carpometacarpus of Aegypius monachus


Location: Fumane Cave, Lessini Hills, north of Verona, Italy
Map location/coordinates reference: Coordinates drawn from place webpage: Fumane map page

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