The cave, which opens into the limestone rocks that form the island, preserves significant documentation of Sicilian prehistory, particularly from the Upper Paleolithic period.

It provides images of Quaternary animals such as the red deer, aurochs, and hydrontin, as well as some human figures with bird-head masks and headdresses similar to those found in the Addaura caves.

These are colored in red and black and depict male and female human figures as well as mammals and fish, including tuna, which remain significant in the life and culture of the modern Aegadian Islands.

[citation needed] Thanks to stratigraphic analysis, it was possible to conduct one of the very few carbon-14 datings of Sicilian prehistory, which indicates an age of 9230 BCE (Advanced Epigravettian).

The presence of a significant limestone fragment with an engraved bovid, in a style very similar to the mural representations, within the stratigraphic sequence, allowed for this absolute dating.