The Cau de les Dents burial site in Torroella de Montgrí

The Cau de les Dents, located in Torroella de Montgrí, Catalonia, is one of several prehistoric burial sites found in the Montgrí massif. The entrance to the cave, about four meters wide, leads to a space on the right side with a slope towards the inside and on the left side a short gallery that curves gradually to the right with a slope towards the outside.

In 1975, local scholars Josep Vert and Joan Torró confirmed a discovery of human teeth and requested assistance from Narcís Soler and Enriqueta Pons of the Servei d'Investigacions Arqueològiques de Girona. Three years later, a campaign of exploration began, revealing various items, including several river cobbles of quartz and quartzite, a fragment of a skull, human jawbone fragments, other bones, human milk teeth, a limonite pendant, large beads of steatite and calcite, fragments of pottery, two arrowhead tips of flint, a key and a ring, both of bronze.

Among the surrounding lands, many pieces had fallen from the cave and were sifted by the nearby tarteras (locally called pedrigos). Among these pieces, fragments of stone axes with notches for handles were found, marking the first report of such items in the massif. Based on the appearance of corded pottery fragments, the cultural context of the burial site has been placed in the final Bronze.

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