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The village of Antro gives its name to the surrounding
territory and it is situated to 318 m. on the sea
level. In a rocky face there is the hypogeum called
"Saint John of Antro's cave".
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Cave
entrance
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The entrance of the cave is situated to 350 m.
on the sea level and the geologic route, currently
explored for 4500 m., is developed in horizontal
sense on many levels.
Explorations in the cave started in 1885 and in
1925 explorers exceeded a tight passage that allows
to reach the actual development now.
Tourist route is caracterised by a semiartificial
path that allows hikers to penetrated in the deep
of the earth.
At Saint John there are two buildings but a meager
number of human objects. This deficiency is caused
by three factors:
- no aimed archaeological diggings
- dispersed and not documented material
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In
the cave
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- water basements that change the ground of the
cave and that allows to find bony fragments that
belong to the Ursus speaeus (bear of the caves)
Archaeological objects can be divided in four categories:
1. ceramics ( pre-Roman period)
2. metal ( Medieval period)
3. glass
4. bone and teeth of animals
The bear of caves appeared at the end of the Glacial
Era of the Riss ( 120.000 years ago) and it's diffused
during the Wurm I, but it disappeared at the end of
this Glacial Era.
The period of its maximum expansion is between 80.000
and 35.000 years ago.
Most ancient things of our cave are approximately
dated 40.000 years.
The area of distribution of Ursus speaeus's fossil
rests is in moderated-continental zones of Europe.
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The
bear
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These bears were diffent from our bears for one
reason: the hibernation had always place in natural
caves and seldom in shelter.
Ursus speaeus was vegetarian and after the winter
hibernation it went around for finding food during
all hot season.
Bears of caves's dimension are similar to grey bears
of North America, but their skull is different:
the front is convex which derives from an increasing
of nose dimention.
They used much more molars during mastication and
this fact dimostrates these bears were mostly vegetarians.
Questo adattamento sembrerebbe confermare il maggior
uso dei molari durante la masticazione, e ciò
fornirebbe, indirettamente, un'ulteriore prova a
favore della teoria che ritiene che questi
fossero animali prevalentemente vegetariani.
Predators in a position to competing with them did
not exist.
The Ursus spelaeus disappeared in short time.
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How to find Antro
Click on the MAP
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For visit and more information call:
Pro-Loco NEDISKE DOLINE
Tel: +39-0432-727975, cell: 338-1260311.
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Informazioni
tratte dall'opuscolo realizzato dalla
Comunità Montana Valli Dal Natisone
con il contributo dell' U.E. - Progetto
5B.
Il disegno del complesso è di
Moreno Tomasetig.
I testi sono di Lorenzo Favia
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