The stretch of coast which runs between Scario and Marina di Camerota is rich with prehistoric evidence. This is proved by research and prospections carried out in more than thirty years of collaboration between the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Salerno and the Università di Siena. Separate summaries have been prepared both for the sites which will be visited during the excursions (Molare, Infreschi, Poggio, Cala and Serratura) and for other sites which cannot be visited for motives of time or difficulty of access (Grotta Grande, S. Maria and Noglio). In this summary we will mention briefly the remaining sites, listing them in chronological order of the respective finds.



Cala Bianca

Cala Bianca: archaic Acheulean artifacts in situ

The very reddened sandy deposits which outcrop in Cala Bianca seem to have originated in two different phases of deposition. The oldest sediments, which have been affected by profound pedogenesis with a horizon of plinthite, contain artifacts appertaining to an archaic phase of the Acheulean, with coarsely made bifaces and choppers. To the more recent phase we can attribute the more refined bifaces, with rectilinear lateral edges, which are also associated with choppers and a flake industry. A pyroclastic level is intercalated in the more recent sediments.



Arconte and Capo Grosso

These are two adjoining open sites which have a series of sandy sediments identical to the more recent ones at Cala Bianca. Artifacts of an evolved Acheulean were found on the surface and in the excavation at Arconte (excavations by Palma di Cesnola, 1969): these consist of well made bifaces, sidescrapers and denticulates.

The pyroclastic horizon found at Cala Bianca is also well developed in these two sites and constitutes a precise stratigraphic marker.



Grotta Tina

A small cave near Grotta della Cala with a reddish silty-clayey deposit (2 metres in thickness), at circa 10 metres above sea-level. The anthropogenic level, which is related to an occasional use of the cave, has produced a rare Mousterian industry (26 artifacts, of which 17 are tools) which can be referred to a generically "evolved" aspect. The palaeoecological analyses indicate a continental climate with temperate-humid oscillations, with red deer dominant and abundant rabbits and ungulates. Excavations by L. Sarti and F. Martini, 1973-74.



Grotta Taddeo

Grotta Taddeo: lithic industry

A small cave lying at circa 7 metres above sea-level along the sandy shore of the Calanca, which was used as an occasional refuge during the Middle Palaeolithic. The anthropogenic level, contained in a deposit of red earth overlying a Tyrrhenian beach, has produced a rare lithic industry (25 artifacts, of which 18 are tools), fauna (especially red deer and with a presence of Hippopotamus) and four human teeth. Excavations by A. Vigliardi, 1967.

Finds referable to the Mousterian were also discovered in Nicchia Silhar, directly above the Tyrrhenian beach, Riparo della Difesa, Grotta dell'Acqua and Grotta della Masseta. Excavations have been planned at these sites in the near future.



Grotta Calanca

It is located on the beach of the same name. The three occupation levels identified have produced industries which can be referred to the "Noallies burin" facies of the Gravettian. Excavations by A Vigliardi, 1967-71.



Grotta di Cascarella

At The surface of a cave, in which systematic excavations have yet to be carried out, fragments of pottery have been found which probably date to the Bronze Age.