Grotta della Bàsura: nelle orme la più antica testimonianza del rapporto tra uomo e cane

Today we're discovering a unique place that holds the world's oldest evidence of a millennia-old relationship: that between man and dog... And it's located right here in Italy, more precisely in Liguria, in the so-called Grotta della Bàsura, in Toirano (SV). Chapters: 00:00 Intro "In the Footsteps of the Past" 01:09 The Discovery of the Prehistoric Cave 04:26 Not Just Caves... in Toirano 05:20 Walking the Dog: The Paleolithic Walk in the Cave 14:44 Conclusion To visit Toirano and the Caves: https://www.toiranogrotte.it/hh/index... https://www.instagram.com/grotteditoi... https://www.comune.toirano.sv.it/ Thanks to the Liguria Region, institutional partner of this video, Dr. Marta Zunino, director of the Toirano Caves, and the entire team for their collaboration. ❤️SUPPORT THE CHANNEL ❤️: https://ko-fi.com/archeomilla CONTACTS: Email me: [email protected] Follow me on social media: https://linktr.ee/Archeomilla MAIN SOURCES: Marta Zunino, Elisabetta Starnini, Daniele Arobba, Marco Avanzini, Rosanna Caramiello, Paolo Citton, Livia Camilla Clementi, Marco Firpo, Stefano Giannotti, Fabio Negrino, Fiorenzo Panizza, Marco Romano, Ivano Rellini, Isabella Salvador, “Toirano revisited: new geoarchaeological and paleontological research in the Bàsura Cave (Toirano, Savona). First results of the multidisciplinary study of anthropogenic traces and faunal deposits from the Upper Pleistocene,” in Rivista di Scienze Preistoriche LXXIII S3 (2023), Prehistory and Protohistory of Liguria, pp. 373-384. Marco Romano, Paolo Citton, Isabella Salvador, Daniele Arobba, Ivano Rellini, Marco Firpo, Fabio Negrino, Marta Zunino, Elisabetta Starnini, Marco Avanzini, “A multidisciplinary approach to a unique palaeolithic human ichnological record from Italy (Basura Cave),” in eLife 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.45204 Marco Avanzini, Isabella Salvador, Marta Zunino, Daniele Arobba, Paolo Citton, Fabio Negrino, Ivano Rellini, Federico De Sario, Elisabetta Starnini, Marco Romano, “Dog domestication: new ichnological evidence from the Upper Palaeolithic of the Basura cave (Toirano, NW Italy),” in Quaternary Science Reviews 371 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2... Images, music, and video credits: Wikimedia Commons, YouTube free library, Pexels, Marta Zunino, Marco Avanzini