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Human Remains and Artefacts from Romuald's Cave, Istria, Croatia

Romuald's cave is located on the southern slopes of the Lim channel in Istria, Croatia. In the mid 20th century M. Malez conducted more extensive excavations of the site and unearthed various archaeological and paleontological material dating from the Late Pleistocene to the Bronze and Iron Age. The Late Pleistocene finds included Upper Palaeolithic types of tools, faunal remains and two juvenile human teeth. In 2007 and 2008 D. Komšo led small scale excavations during which several Mousterian artefacts were found. In 2014 new excavations of the site started as a part of the ARCHAEOLIM financed by the Croatian Science Foundation. During the three years of work at the site, human skeletal material and artefacts from Bronze Age, as well as artefacts from Iron age were found. The middle sequences yielded several Upper Palaeolithic tool types, while the lower sequence yielded Mousterian artefacts and Pleistocene faunal remains dated to over 48 kya.

middle paleolithic ; upper paleolithic ; human remains ; lithic analysis ; Istria

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