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The next Sunday, July 18, has scheduled a tour of the site of the Black Cave, where they have found valuable fossil remains of man and wildlife and flora of approximately 800,000 years old.
Professor Michael Walker, who directs the drilling campaign will explain the importance of this site become an international reference for the study of human evolution.
Palaeolithic remains located in this place set up the singular "Acheulean-levaloisomusteroide" such a classification oldest in Europe.
Research conducted by scientists in the cave and subsequently analyzed in laboratories at Oxford (England) and Berkeley (USA) have found that the Black Cave contains the remains of about 800,000 years old, making this enclave of the incarnation as an international reference for the study of human evolution, comparable in time to de Atapuerca.
Caravaca City Council has sponsored the excavations taking place at the site every summer with the participation of students from different countries, led by Professor of Physical Anthropology of the University of Murcia Michael Walker.
Those interested in participating in the tour on Sunday they must go to the hamlet of La Encarnación (Church Gate) at 10.00.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz
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