According to recent studies on prehistoric human remains, the archaeological area of Riparo Blanc in the locality Cava d’Alabastro, overlooking the Circeo Sea, is currently considered the oldest Necropolis in Central Italy.
The human skeletons, found in the 1960s by Alberto Carlo Blanc, the Italian pioneer of Paleolithic studies, were at first attributed to periods following the Mesolithic. Today, the archaeologists Flavio Altamura and Margherita Musi from the “Dipartimento Scienze dell’Antichità Università La Sapienza”, in collaboration with the “Istituto Italiano di Paleontologia umana”, resumed the scientist’s studies and, thanks to the new technologies, proved the human remains to date back to the Mesolithic, between 9300 and 7500 BC. The Pontine Plain and the Circeo Promontory are therefore among the most important sites, where to conduct research about Italian Prehistory.
Riparo Blanc Ph @ Parco Nazionale del Circeo