Eclipsed himself 250 thousand years ago in the cave of Lamalunga, who has kept in his chest and gave us unscrupulous descendants of the third millennium, now the Man of Altamura limestone back to the scene.
Probably not then received the ambush and that the cave tended.

The more frightened the great abyss of Pulo, whose cap was suddenly plunged, opening to the sun on the north wall overlooking large cavity flows clear from rain, which became his shelter from the elements and fairs.
His contemporaries lived Murgia Franchini and had learned not to venture, during periods of full, including swelling of water channels, resulting in serious Farawalla.

Legends tell of still living down whole herds, with their pastors in the black hole and found Farawalla after days and days in the Gulf of Taranto.
Lamalunga in the canyon of the Man of Altamura was overwhelmed by the water and was hurled through a shaft that intercepts a tunnel slide, a 30 meters from the surface, in the main hall of the cave.

A subsequent full transported him to a secondary branch of absorption, where he remained caught between stalactites.
The water flooded and the embroidery on her skeleton, with the alabaster, lace concretions of a “cauliflower”.
Through other wells and driven by seasonal flows, numerous animal carcasses reached the cave. The water deposited with the silt, clay and red sandy gorges in secret.
250 thousand years after C.A.R.S. (I center Searches Altamura speleologiche), on 07/10/1993, during the exploration of the cave Lamalunga, makes a discovery of global significance: “The Man of Altamura” the only skeletal remains of the Paleolithic human whole.
Calcareous skeleton formed 130 million years ago formed the limestone of Bari and Altamura limestone, rocks of calcareous-arenaceous origin (the tuffs Mazzaro, cozzoso, saline) to which alternate clays, alluvial deposits and red soil formed between 1 million and 2 thousand years ago, and concentrated in culturable blades.

To the ispessimento sovraorbitale contrasts in fact the rear near the neck, which leads to more archaic human fossils. The discovery of the cave dell’ominide Lamalunga can be explained by a male adult of 160-165 centimeters.

It is in the whole skeletal structure and is in excellent condition.
On its skull are both archaic traits than morphological transformations, settle himself themselves in neandertaliani, which allow you to place it in the group of fossils of the European Middle Pleistocene, between the forms of Homo erectus (400 thousand years) and the forms of Homo Neanderthal ( 85 thousand years), a phase of transition estimated at 250 thousand years ago.