A museum that tells us about the first humans that populated the Alpine chain and, thanks to the burial of the Man of Val Rosna
who lived 14,000 years ago, shows us the life and beliefs of the
hunter-gatherers Sapiens who lived in the Alps in the final stages of
the last Ice Age.
It was 1987 when Aldo Villabruna found, in a
construction site in the municipality of Sovramonte at the confluence of
the Rosna and Cismon rivers, remains of human bones and an arrowhead
dating back to the Epigravettian, the last phase of the Upper
Palaeolithic.
The news astonished the scientific world and the
University of Ferrara began an excavation campaign that brought to light
three shelters that exploited the rock face, frequented repeatedly
during prehistoric times. To the first frequentation, dating back 14,000
years ago, dates the burial of a hunter aged 25/30 years old covered
with painted stones: one of the oldest known forms of funerary art.
