Positano

Positano is an Italian town of 3,896 inhabitants within the province of Salerno in Campania, geographically belonging to the Amalfi Coast. The first proof of a settlement in Positano dates lower back to Prehistory, extra precisely to the Upper Paleolithic wherein the La Porta Cave became frequented by using gatherers and hunters. This small cave, located at 120 m and at 10 m on the highway, it turned into a completely huge time of which it's far still feasible to differentiate the terminal component and two niches. In 1955, Antonio M. Radmilli organized numerous reconnaissance trips to perceive prehistoric settlements, both at the surface and in some caves.

During the excavations there are several fossils, a number of which might be malacological like mollusc shells, whilst the fauna is represented with the aid of the remains of mammals, birds, amphibians and fish. The findings advised that the people who frequented the caves had a financial system primarily based particularly on gathering molluscs, even as looking birds and mammals changed into as an alternative marginal. Despite the culture connected to the parable of the Sirens, there's no information concerning a Greek frequentation of the Positano coast.