43°47′02″N7°32′02″E / 43.784°N 7.534°E /43.784; 7.534
TheBalzi Rossi caves (Ligurian:baussi rossi "red rocks") inVentimigliacomune,Liguria,Italy, is one of the most importantarchaeological sites of the earlyUpper Paleolithic inWestern Europe. Constance Fenimore Woolson visited in 1880 the Cavillon cave overlooking the via Julia Augusta and presented an account, in her travel piece "At Mentone", of the discovery in the Balzi-Rossi (red rocks) of a prehistoric skeleton and culture.[1] It has been continually excavated by archaeologists for more than 150 years.[2]
