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The findings confirm Excavation Campaign XXIV which is at the site of the Black Cave where evidence is located, using fire for Europe's oldest man.

So today explained Professor Michael J.

Walker, who has said that the remains of charred bones and flint tools located in the hamlet of La Encarnación caravaqueña care must fire by early man.

The Councillor for Culture and Tourism in the city of Caravaca, Maria Cruz Perez, highlighted the international concern that the Black Cave is awakening among numerous international scientists from universities such as Arizona, Boston, Oxfgord or Lyons, with travel to site itself or through studies in their laboratories.

"The impact that the Black Cave has among scientists around the world is the result of excellent work on several excavation campaigns, thanks to the collaboration between the University of Murcia, the Directorate General of Cultural Heritage, the City of Caravaca and Murcia Association for the Study of paleontology, "said the councilor, who thanked the interest and professionalism of the entire team and, especially, of the directors of the excavation, Michael J.

Walker, Mariano Vicente Lopez and Maria Haber.

During excavation conducted this July by scientists, students and graduates of universities in the United States, China, United Kingdom, Sweden, Belgium and Spain, has been localized Acheulean hand ax of bifacial and several flakes and pieces flint.

Were also collected numerous animal remains, which were the basis of subsistence hunters who lived in the cave for almost a million years.

"Until the discoveries made in the Black Cave is not located in Europe or traces of fire nor dated Acheulean lithic assemblage as bygone as the end of the Pleistocene Old", according to Professor Walker, who also noted that the uniqueness of the site caravaqueño increases because the fossil remains of Homo heidelbergensis and the evidence of human activity without interruption.

"The various research conducted by scientists in recent years, especially in Berkeley (California. USA), have provided amazing results on the chronology of the cave, indicating that all the sedimentary layers are older than 780,000 years," Professor Walker explained today on the balance of the excavation campaign.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz