Portal de Caravaca de la Cruz
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The next Sunday, July 22, at 10.00 there will be a guided tour of the Black Cave, located in the hamlet caravaqueña of the Incarnation.
Participants in this activity will learn the hand of Professor Michael J.
Walker, Mariano Lopez and Mary Habel the excavation and cataloging of remains that are taking place this summer, and sediment levels studied in the past.
Subsequent archaeological excavations conducted in the Black Cave have resulted in the discovery of numerous remains of fauna and flora, as well as teeth and bone fragments of fossil man in Europe.
"The idea is that during the visit to see the excavated levels in the sediment, which were located preneandertal man's bones and fossils of more than sixty species of fauna", as noted by the Councillor for Culture and Tourism in the City of Caravaca, María Cruz Perez, who has encouraged all those interested in archeology "to discover this important site in the municipality that dated to between 790,000 and 900,000 years old, has become an international reference for the study of human evolution. "
Those interested in participating in this free tour should go at 10.00 pm on Sunday at a meeting, set at the Ermitica of the Incarnation, by the river.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz
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