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Twenty students and teachers will be part of the XXVI Campaign Archaeological Dig Black Cave, which takes place from 30 June to 21 July, organized by the Murcia Association for the Study of Paleoanthropology and Quaternary (Mupantquat) with the collaboration of the City of Caravaca de la Cruz.
In the field school will involve experts and students of the University of Murcia, with students coming from US, UK, Canada, China and Australia.
The work will be co-directed by Professors Michael J. Walker, Mariano Martinez and Maria Lopez Uriarte Haber.
The Black Cave, with a length of between 780,000 and 900,000 years has become an international reference for the study of human evolution.
The findings of recent excavations confirm that it is in this field Quípar Strait of Rio de La Encarnación, where evidence of use of fire is located by the oldest man in Europe.
This June, the magazine British journal Antiquity ', one of the most internationally outstanding in the field of archeology, opens its latest issue with an article sobrela intentional presence of fire in the Black Cave.
This publication highlights in its pages that "fire control is a feature of development of human cognition and an essential technology for the colonization of the colder latitudes. In Europe, the earliest evidence found in Cueva Negra. Have been documented charred sediments, calcined bone and thermally altered in a deep repository dated to 0.8 million years old flint. a combination of analysis indicates that these had been heated between 400 and 600 ° C. Losanálisis sediment and hydroxyapatite also suggest ydegradación burning bone. the results provide new insight into the use of fire in the Paleolithic and its importance to human evolution. "
Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz
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