This was the start of new research in the Grotta della Serratura, where excavations were undertaken between 1984 and the late 1990s by the University of Siena. The site is a large cave situated on the Cilento coast at Marina di Camerota, opening onto the Lentiscella beach. It must originally have contained a massive archaeological deposit, estimated to have been about 13 m deep, which has gradually been eroded away by the sea. The residual patches attest human occupation from the middle Palaeolithic onwards (entrance area), in the Upper Palaeolithic (atrium area), Upper Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic (rear of the cave). The past excavations discovered important elements relating to the middle Upper Palaeolithic (Gravettian) and late Upper Palaeolithic (Epigravettian), the Mesolithic and Neolithic of the lower Tyrrhenian. The coming excavations aim to investigate the early phases of the Upper Palaeolithic and the Middle Palaeolithic.