Monte Circeo

An isolated promontory on the southwestern coast of Italy, south of Rome, with several caves containing prehistoric remains. The numerous coastal grottoes have yielded many traces of Stone Age settlement. Fossellone Cave has several early Upper Palaeolithic levels and Grotta Guattari had a Neanderthal skull and three lower jaws in Mousterian deposits.

The Circeo peninsula in Latium, south of Rome, has several caves with prehistoric remains; Fossellone Cave with several early Upper Palaeolithic levels and Guattari Cave are the most important. In the latter, a Neanderthal skull was found on the Mousterian deposits, and three lower jaws come from the deposits.