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The coastal area between Marina di Camerota and Scario (Salerno) is particularly important for the presence of a good number of prehistoric deposits often represented by deep stratigraphic sequences.

Among these, the site of Grotta della Cala has the most complete sequence, as it covers a period of time running from the middle Palaeolithic period until the Copper Age. Palma di Cesnola of the University of Siena began excavations inside the cave, working between 1966 and 1971. Since then Paolo Gambassini, Annamaria Ronchitelli, and Adriana Moroni have worked on the site.

In 2014, after several years during which work on the site was suspended, research in the Grotta della Cala resumed thanks to a collaboration between the Archaeological Superintendencies of Salerno, Avellino, Benevento and Caserta, the town of Camerota, the National Park of the Cilento and Vallo di Diana and Siena University.
The research, part of a project to enhance prehistoric sites in the Cilento, aims to:
1) continue excavation of the upper Palaeolithic levels (Uluzzian, Aurignacian, Gravettian) in the atrium of the cave (Gambassini excavations);
2) extend the trench opened by di Cesnola in 1966-71 in the inner part of the cave;
3) take new samples for sediment, chronological and paleo-environmental analyses,
4) programme the retrieval of new dating evidence, particularly for the early upper Palaeolithic period.

The 2014 season was largely undertaken to check the deposit’s state of preservation. Firstly, all exposed levels and sections in the atrium of the cave were cleaned, area in which the stratigraphic excavations began.
The excavation examined a part of the deposit that had collapsed following erosion caused by the Holocene sea. This erosion had removed the Epigravettian and part of the Gravettian levels in the front part of the cave, exposing the roof of the Aurignacian levels in some places. This deposit, which is therefore in secondary deposition, preserved materials primarily dating to the Upper Paleolithic period (Gravettian-Epigravettian), but also to the Holocene period (Neo-Eneolithic and Iron Age).

The removal of the collapsed deposit, which varied in thickness from a minimum of 10 to a maximum of 50 cm, was necessary in order to enlarge the excavation surface and therefore the investigation of the early ancient Gravettian occupation levels and then of the Aurignacian and Ulzzanian levels. One of the main aims of the new investigations in the Grotta della Cava was in fact that of obtaining information about how the groups of humans who used the cave during the early phases of the Upper Palaeolithic period organised the space within it (and thus about the distribution of the various categories of materials).