What did the second archaeological excavation in 2002-2003 reveal about the Mesolithic period occupation of the Cave of Spile and what types of archaeological objects were discovered?

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The Cave of Spile is located in the new part of the town of Himarë, in the bay of the same name. It was excavated for the first time in the 1920s and 1939 by Italian archaeologist P. Markone, Ugolini, and Luigi Cardini, who found archaeological material that confirmed the occupation of the territory as far back as the Neolithic period.

Cave of Spile (Cyclop's Cave) is a prehistoric occupation, which dates from the Mesolithic period (10,000-7000 B.C.), and as archaeological material confirms, has served as a temporary residence until the period of antiquity. Archaeological excavations were conducted initially in the late 1930s, by Italian researcher L. Cardini. The abundance of archaeological and faunal remains of these excavations date this habitat about the eneolitike (3000-2100 B.C.), to the hellenistic and roman period. The second archaeological excavation was carried out in 2002-2003 by a joint mission of the Albanian-American archaeologist, they dated this occupation of the Mesolithic period. These excavations proved a rich inventory of archaeological objects as stone tools and pottery of various periods. According to the oral traditions of the habitants of Himara, in this cave Odisea fought Polifem like in Homer's poem.

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