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Volunteers from universities in the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom and Portugal also collaborate in the excavation.
The next July 16 is an open day at the site to show progress of the last campaign
The Murcian Association for the Study of Paleoanthropology and the Quaternary (Mupantquat), with the collaboration of the University of Murcia and the Caravaca de la Cruz City Council, has initiated the XVIII Paleoanthropological and Archeological Excavations Campaign in the Black Cave of the Strait of Gibraltar. Río Quípar, in La Encarnación.
At the Caravaqueño site, a team of 19 people is working, until July 21, of which 10 are experts from the University of Murcia and Mupantquat.
To this team are 9 volunteers from the following international universities: Western Washington (USA), Miami University (USA), Oxford (UK), University College London (UK), Leicester (UK), Queensland ), Porto (EU, Portugal).
The excavation campaign, integrated in the Field School of Paleoanthropology and Prehistory of the Quaternary of the Region of Murcia, is directed by the professor emeritus of the Faculty of Biology (Department of Zoology and Physical Anthropology) Michael-John Walker;
Together with the archaeologist of Mupantquat Mariano Vicente López and Professor of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Murcia (Department of Prehistory, Archeology, Ancient History and Medieval History) María Haber Uriarte.
The objective set by the experts for the present campaign is to continue to expand the investigation at the levels in which the presence of the fire made by the oldest man in Europe has been verified.
The site of the Black Cave is between 900,000 and 800,000 years old, which corresponds to the end of the Old or Lower Pleistocene.
The cave was frequented by humans who left traces of their presence in the form of remains of the fire and a hand ax, both being the oldest in Europe, as well as other minor paleolithic tools and abundant remains of fauna.
On Sunday, July 16, an open day will be held at the site.
The activity will start at 10:00 am and will have as a meeting point "La Ermitica" (next to the river).
Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz
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