page_title: Benzú
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Benzú / History
caption_attribution_description: Español: Esta cueva y abrigo se descubrió casualmente en 2001. El abrigo cuenta con más de 50 metros cuadrados de sedimentos y más de 5 metros de potencia, lo cual es realmente excepcional en este tipo de yacimientos, con unos niveles de brechas y un fabuloso estado de conservación. De los 10 estratos, 7 presentan ocupación humana, siendo los más interesantes los fechados en el Paleolítico Medio. En el caso de la cueva, la ocupación más interesante es Neolítica, aunque los vestigios más antiguos se fechan ya en el Paleolítico Medio
context_page_description: Benzú is a small settlement within the Spanish autonomous city of Ceuta. It has a population of 1,987 according to the 2011 census, divided into two units with Ceuta as its municipality.
context_section_description: It has rock shelters and caves which have evidence of occupation during the palaeolithic and neolithic periods. Researchers have found seven levels of human occupation dating back to 250,000 years ago. The evidence they have found has led them to think of the Straits of Gibraltar not as a barrier but a bridge to early humans. The different levels within the cave show the development of stone tools. The tools are made from Flint, Sandstone and Radiolarite with scrapers used for working both wood and hide. Comparison of the technology used during the Pleistocene and Holocene periods by early humans shows that there was a very similar civilisation in caves excavated in Gibraltar, mainland Spain and around Tangier to caves around Benzu.
  The population was given as 1,127 in 2000 and it has risen to 1,170 in 2010.
  The N-354 and N-362 roads link Benzú to the city of Ceuta.
caption: Access to the archaeological site of the cave of Benzú
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