Peştera Muierilor

Peştera Muierilor (Romanian for "The Women's Cave"; or Peştera Muierii, "The Woman's Cave") is a cave located in the Baia de Fier commune, Gorj County, Romania. It contains human fossils from from 40,000-29,000 BP, which, alongside similar remains found in Cioclovina Cave (from ca. 29,000 BP) are among the most ancient early modern humans in Romanian prehistory. On the basis of radiocarbon dating and also the analysis of the archaeological context, some researchers advanced the hypothesis of the association of these bones with the Aurignacian archaeological culture. Others mention the possibility that these findings could belong to a certain regional culture from the Southern Carpathians, from the period of the Final Middle Paleolithic and Early Upper Paleolithic.