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A team of archaeologists, anthropologists and biologists started work today in the field caravaqueño
04.07.12.
A team of archaeologists, anthropologists and biologists today launched a new campaign of excavation at the site of the Black Cave of the Incarnation.
"In the work, which will last until July 24, involving 15 people proceed from the United States, England and Spain and are led by Professors Michael J. Walker, Mariano Lopez and Mary Habel," as detailed Councilwoman Culture in the city of Caravaca de la Cruz, Maria Cruz Perez.
The main objective of the work to develop focuses on expanding the excavation area where last summer they were located, according to several experts, are the oldest remains of fire found in Paleolithic sites in Europe.
In this sense, co-director of the excavation Mariano Lopez has revealed that a team of Italian geologists to be shifted to the Incarnation this July to study the layer of the cave sediments burned.
During the campaign also will try to find new remains of fossil man, fauna and flora, which consolidate the Black Cave as one of the most valuable and prominent sites in Europe.
The various research papers in the last 20 years confirm that the site of the Black Cave is between 790,000 and 900,000 years old.
In recent seasons Paleolithic remains have been found abundant fossils of animal and human teeth of Homo heidelbergensis, who inhabited Europe in the Pleistocene.
All excavated levels in the sediment, which reaches more than five feet deep, provide evidence of human presence or activity continuously, without interruption.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz
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