Germany in the world were discovered in a coal mine in Schöningen where three 380,000-year-old wooden javelins were unearthed. The Neander Valley was the location where the first ever non-modern human fossil was discovered; the new species of human was called the Neanderthal. The Neanderthal 1 fossils are known to be 40,000 years old. Evidence of modern humans, similarly dated, has been found in caves in the Swabian Jura near Ulm. The finds include 42,000-year-old bird bone and mammoth ivory flutes which are the oldest musical instruments ever found, the 40,000-year-old Ice Age Lion Man which is the oldest uncontested figurative
Varaita Valley Varaita Valley Varaita Valley (in Italian "Valle Varaita") is a valley in south-west of Piedmont, in the Province of Cuneo - Italy. It takes its name from the Varaita, a right-hand tributary of the Po which flows through the valley. Close the French border the valley is divided in two sub-valleys named "Valle di Bellino" (south) and "Valle di Chianale" (north), which meet near Casteldelfino. The municipalities of Varaita Valley are Bellino, Brossasco, Casteldelfino, Costigliole Saluzzo, Frassino, Isasca, Melle, Piasco, Pontechianale, Rossana, Sampeyre, Valmala, Venasca and Verzuolo. The most important mountains of the valley are the Monviso (3.841 m) and