Tischofer Cave

The Tischofer Cave is a cave inside the Kaisertal valley within the Kaisergebirge mountains in Austria. It changed into a regionally crucial amassing region and guns cache at some stage in the Tyrolean rebellion inside the Napoleonic Wars. The kind of forty m long cave, which is ready 8.5 m high at the doorway, turned into occupied via cave bears and different predators as refuge for the duration of the Paleolithic as evidenced by using severa excavated skeletal stays. Bone gear of paleo-human inhabitants manufactured from cave endure bones and skulls determined right here and dated to approximately 27,000 to 28,000 years ago may be viewed in the local history museum inside the citadel at Kufstein.

That courting makes the Tischofer Cave the oldest recognized uncontested website online of human career in Tyrol. Discoveries of greater latest human skeletons and associated tools additionally suggest that the cave served as a copper smithy and foundry for the duration of the Bronze Age. The Tischofer Cave can be reached strolling through the Kaiser Path within the Kaisertal valley, a pathway secured with cable railings. It is recorded in the Tyrolean Cave Register as range 1312/001.