{"id":87198,"date":"2020-05-20T10:38:44","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T10:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parcodellecascate.it\/patrimonio-preistorico\/"},"modified":"2022-02-18T11:54:42","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T11:54:42","slug":"the-prehistoric-heritage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/parcodellecascate.it\/en\/park\/the-prehistoric-heritage\/","title":{"rendered":"The prehistoric heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row row_height_percent=&#8221;0&#8243; override_padding=&#8221;yes&#8221; h_padding=&#8221;2&#8243; top_padding=&#8221;5&#8243; bottom_padding=&#8221;3&#8243; overlay_alpha=&#8221;100&#8243; gutter_size=&#8221;3&#8243; column_width_percent=&#8221;100&#8243; shift_y=&#8221;0&#8243; z_index=&#8221;0&#8243; row_height_use_pixel=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column column_width_use_pixel=&#8221;yes&#8221; gutter_size=&#8221;3&#8243; overlay_alpha=&#8221;50&#8243; shift_x=&#8221;0&#8243; shift_y=&#8221;0&#8243; medium_width=&#8221;0&#8243; zoom_width=&#8221;0&#8243; zoom_height=&#8221;0&#8243; column_width_pixel=&#8221;800&#8243;][vc_column_text]<strong>The prehistoric heritage: men and environment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Humans have lived in the <strong>Lessini territory since a very remote era<\/strong>, attracted to its abundance of natural caves, superficial water and a varied environment with its wealth of animals to hunt and prime quality flint stone.<\/p>\n<p>There are many natural caves in the Waterfall Park and in some of them significant traces of nomadic hunter-gatherers dating back to 100.000 years ago have been found: our Neanderthal cousins first, then Homo sapiens (our species) more recently 40.000 years ago. 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