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POST-PALEOLITHIC ANTHROPOMORPHIC ENGRAVINGS IN CAVE

Fig. F47) Graffito on rock.
Group of men with erotic scene, or acrobats, in the center.
Size: each human figure about 20 cm (there are 17 anthropomorphic figures, of which only one is female, and 17 zoomorphic figures, equids, elks, bovids) on two walls of about 1.80 m wide and 2.40 m high and 1.50 m high for 2 m wide respectively.
Material culture: probably Epigravettian final-early Mesolithic.
Location: Addaura Cave, Palermo (Italy).






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