Scladina

Scladina
Thilo Parg · CC BY-SA 3.0

Scladina (or Sclayn Cave) is a Neanderthal occupation site in the Andenne hills of Belgium, where excavations since 1978 have yielded over 13,000 Mousterian stone tools [1]. The site's stratified deposits span multiple Ice Age periods, with the remarkable discovery in 1993 of the nearly complete skeleton of a young Neanderthal child, one of the oldest known in western Europe [2]. The cave sits on a hill overlooking the Meuse River near Sclayn [3].

TypeCave Structures
Period< 4500 BC
CountryBelgium
Coordinates50.4839° N, 5.0255° E

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