Palaeolithic Elephant Tusk
In the area where Atella was later to be built, the presence of man can be traced back to around 600,000 – 650,000 years ago, when there was already a paleolago stretching in the place now known as Valle di Vitalba for 50,000 years.
For over twenty years, research carried out by the paleontologist Eduardo Borzatti von Lowestem and his team has led to the identification of, among other things, part of the shore of the ancient lake at the AtelÌa cemetery, where were found remains of ancient Elephant and Uro -zanne, molars – and footprints of an elephant that got bogged down in the slime, footprints that allowed to hypothesize what was the hunting strategy put in place by homo erectus for the capture of the great pachyderms.
