Kozarnika Rocky Area

Kozarnika or Peshtera Kozarnika is a cave in northwestern Bulgaria that was used as a hunters’ shelter as early as the Lower Paleolithic. It marks an older route of early human migration from Africa to Europe via the Balkans, prior to the other currently suggested route - the one across Gibraltar. The cave probably keeps the earliest evidence of human s…
Kozarnika or Peshtera Kozarnika is a cave in northwestern Bulgaria that was used as a hunters’ shelter as early as the Lower Paleolithic. It marks an older route of early human migration from Africa to Europe via the Balkans, prior to the other currently suggested route - the one across Gibraltar. The cave probably keeps the earliest evidence of human symbolic behaviour and the earliest European Gravette flint assemblages came to light here.
  • Location: near Belogradchik northwestern Bulgaria
  • Length: 210 m (690 ft)
  • Height: 85 m (279 ft)
  • Alternative name: The Goat Shed
  • Region: Vidin Province
  • Material: limestone Karst
  • Periods: Lower Paleolithic
Data from: en.wikipedia.org