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Issel announces the discovery of a human skeleton in a cave near Finale, Liguria, a region already noted for important prehistoric remains. The brief newspaper notice reports the find in the context of contemporary investigations into the antiquity of humans and the prehistoric occupation of the Ligurian caves. The discovery contributed to nineteenth-century archaeological and anthropological interest in the Finale cave sites, where human remains, stone implements, ornaments, and other evidence of prehistoric habitation and burial were being brought to scientific attention.