Centella Cave

Centella Cave
Centella Cave
	Location within Cuba
	Interactive map of Centella Cave
Location	Cárdenas Municipality, Cuba
Nearest city	Matanzas, Cuba
Coordinates	23°01′18.5″N 81°28′30.0″W / 23.021806°N 81.475000°W

Centella Cave (Spanish: Cueva Centella) is an archeological site Cuba. It is located 1.2 km south of the Vía Blanca highway, west of Matanzas, not far from the Juan Gualberto Gómez Airport.^[1]

Remains from at least half a dozen individuals have been found at the site. Some of these remains showed evidence of secondary burial (being moved from their original location).

Remains of the extinct rodent genus Geocapromys were also found at the site.^[2]

References

↑ Orihuela, Johanset; Viñola, Lázaro W.; Viera, Ricardo A. (2020-01-16). "New bat locality records from Cuba with emphasis on the province of Matanzas". Novitates Caribaea (15): 96–116. doi:10.33800/nc.vi15.218. ISSN 2079-0139.
↑ Herrera, Ulises M. González; Valdés, Dany Morales; Ortega, Racso Fernández; de Armas, Yadira Chinique; de la Oliva, Ismael Hernández; Soler, Suyín Leal; Peña, Nanett Gutiérrez (2021). COMPENDIO DE SITIOS ARQUEOLÓGICOS ABORÍGENES CON RESENCIA DE RESTOS HUMANOS EN CUBA [Compendium of Aboriginal Archaeological Sites with Human Remains in Cuba] (in Spanish) (1st ed.). Aspha Ediciones. pp. 153–155. ISBN 978-987-3851-21-6.

[1] Orihuela, Johanset; Viñola, Lázaro W.; Viera, Ricardo A. (2020-01-16). "New bat locality records from Cuba with emphasis on the province of Matanzas". Novitates Caribaea (15): 96–116. doi:10.33800/nc.vi15.218. ISSN 2079-0139.

[2] Herrera, Ulises M. González; Valdés, Dany Morales; Ortega, Racso Fernández; de Armas, Yadira Chinique; de la Oliva, Ismael Hernández; Soler, Suyín Leal; Peña, Nanett Gutiérrez (2021). COMPENDIO DE SITIOS ARQUEOLÓGICOS ABORÍGENES CON RESENCIA DE RESTOS HUMANOS EN CUBA [Compendium of Aboriginal Archaeological Sites with Human Remains in Cuba] (in Spanish) (1st ed.). Aspha Ediciones. pp. 153–155. ISBN 978-987-3851-21-6.

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