The lecture series on archaeology will conclude this Saturday at 3 PM, with a final event at the MAMAC auditorium.
Professor Henry de LUMLEY, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres, Director of the Institute of Human Paleontology – Albert I Foundation of Monaco, will discuss the funerary rites of the first modern humans, through research conducted on the Cavillon Cave.
The Cavillon Cave, located below the Baoussé-Roussé cliff in Grimaldi, Ventimiglia, Italy, is an exceptional prehistoric site that has revealed layers corresponding to the Mousterian culture between 65,000 and 37,000 years ago and the Upper Paleolithic cultures between 37,000 and 10,000 years B.C.
In a Gravettian layer dated to 24,000 years, the Lady of Cavillon, who died at the age of 37, was buried adorned in a magnificent outfit for her journey to the Afterlife…
