Centella Cave
| Centella Cave | |
|---|---|
  Location within Cuba | |
 Interactive map of Centella Cave | |
| Location | Cárdenas Municipality, Cuba |
| Nearest city | Matanzas, Cuba |
| Coordinates | 23°01′18.5″N 81°28′30.0″W / 23.021806°N 81.475000°W |
Centella Cave (Spanish: Cueva Centella) is an archeological site Cuba. It is located 1.2 km south of the Vía Blanca highway, west of Matanzas, not far from the Juan Gualberto Gómez Airport.[1]
Remains from at least half a dozen individuals have been found at the site. Some of these remains showed evidence of secondary burial (being moved from their original location).
Remains of the extinct rodent genus Geocapromys were also found at the site.[2]
References
[edit]- ↑ Orihuela, Johanset; Viñola, Lázaro W.; Viera, Ricardo A. (2020-01-16). "New bat locality records from Cuba with emphasis on the province of Matanzas". Novitates Caribaea (15): 96–116. doi:10.33800/nc.vi15.218. ISSN 2079-0139.
- ↑ Herrera, Ulises M. González; Valdés, Dany Morales; Ortega, Racso Fernández; de Armas, Yadira Chinique; de la Oliva, Ismael Hernández; Soler, Suyín Leal; Peña, Nanett Gutiérrez (2021). COMPENDIO DE SITIOS ARQUEOLÓGICOS ABORÍGENES CON RESENCIA DE RESTOS HUMANOS EN CUBA [Compendium of Aboriginal Archaeological Sites with Human Remains in Cuba] (in Spanish) (1st ed.). Aspha Ediciones. pp. 153–155. ISBN 978-987-3851-21-6.