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The site of the Black Cave, located in the Strait Historic Site of the Incarnation, has focused one of the papers of the last congress of the International Association of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES), held in Dubrovnik, Croatia, from May 4 to 9 .
Professor Michael J. Walker has been responsible for delivering the conference, highlighting, before numerous international experts, the significance that this site has caravaqueño for the study of human evolution, as one of the oldest five of the peninsula remains fossil man.
The findings of recent excavations confirm that it is in the Black Cave, with a length of between 780,000 and 900,000 years where the evidence of use of fire is located by the oldest man in Europe.
The uniqueness of the place is increased by the presence of human fossil remains of Homo heidelbergensis.
The site has been studied by many international scientists from universities such as Arizona, Boston or Lyons.
Last October Walker gave another lecture at the Institute of Archaeology at Oxford University, which resulted in the publication of a scientific article on 'Human Evolution'.
The International Association of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) was established in 1948 with the aim of promoting and supporting the development of anthropology in the world.
The association Anthropologists together not only individually, but also scientific and anthropological societies and other institutions dealing with anthropology in a broad interdisciplinary sense.
The congress held in Croatia has been organized by the Institute for Anthropological Research in Zagreb;
the Croatian Anthropological Society;
the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Ljubljana and the Association KULA.
The next July, work will resume in the Black Cave, with the start of the XXVII Campaign Archaeological Dig and palaeontological, which develops the Murcia Association for the Study of Paleontology and Quaternary (Mupantquat), with the collaboration of the Autonomous Community of Murcia University and City of Caravaca de la Cruz.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz
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