Scladina

Scladina, or Sclayn Cave, is an archaeological website in the Andenne hills in Belgium, wherein excavations since 1978 have provided the fabric for an exhaustive collection of over thirteen thousand Mousterian stone artifacts and the fossilized stays of an specifically historic Neanderthal, known as the Scladina baby were observed in 1993. The Scladina cave is placed on a hill to the proper of the Meuse river bank, south-west of Sclayn village, being certainly one of some of caves within the middle Meuse river place, in which substantial paleontological discoveries have been made as within the Spy Cave and the Lyell Cave.

The caves in the region have been undergone systematic exploration given that 1949. Scladina Cave changed into observed in 1971 by using cavers of the CAS. In 1978 the Scientific Council of the Prehistory Department of the University of Liege started to direct the excavations. Since the web site has yielded numerous artifacts of Mousterian Neanderthal foundation, amidst assemblages of stone tools, bones and faunal stays.