The Grotte du Lazaret (English: Cave of Le Lazaret) is a cave now in the eastern suburbs of the French town of Nice and now overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. It is …More
The Grotte du Lazaret (English: Cave of Le Lazaret) is a cave now in the eastern suburbs of the French town of Nice and now overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. It is famous as being a prehistoric occupation site and the results of archaeological excavations there have been interpreted as representing the construction of shelters by early types of human during the Lower Palaeolithic period. It has also produced more than 20,000 bone fragments from the remains of prehistoric animals. Part of the skull of a nine-year-old child from the cave suggests that either homo heidelbergensis or a proto-Neanderthal group occupied it almost two hundred thousand years ago. Less
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