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Scladina
50.4839° N, 5.0256° E
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Scladina, or Sclayn Cave, is an archaeological site located in Wallonia in the town of Sclayn, in the Andenne hills in Belgium, where excavations since 1978 have provided the material for an exhaustive collection of over thirteen thousand Mousterian stone artifacts and the fossilized remains of an especially ancient Neanderthal, called the Scladina child were discovered in 1993.
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Scladina child first find
16 July 1993
Heritage listing
27 May 2009
Modern human visits
32,000–9,000 years ago
Cave discovery
1971
Scladina child dating
c. 127,000 years ago
Neolithic and Bronze Age burials
5,300–2,000 years ago
University excavations begin
1978
Later Neanderthal occupation
40,000 years ago
Oldest Neanderthal occupation
130,000 years ago
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