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The start of the excavations of the Serinyà caves

Serinyà, Pla de l'Estany, Girona

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The start of the excavations of the Serinyà caves

Historical milestone · Serinyà, Pla de l'Estany, Girona

Image of Serinyà, not of the place itself.

The physician and archaeologist Josep Maria Corominas began in 1944 to excavate the Reclau Viver and the neighboring cavities, which document human presence from two hundred thousand years ago and the Neanderthal occupation of the pre-Pyrenees.

1943

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