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With the participation of twenty teachers, graduates and students of the University of Murcia and other international universities has conducted the campaign XXV Archaeological Excavation at the site "Black Cave", which has culminated today with a press conference by the Mayor of Caravaca de la Cruz, Domingo Aranda, and scientific director of the excavation, Michael J. Walker.
The mayor has referred "to the great interest this site, situated in the hamlet of La Encarnación, is raising between international and national scientists, with extensive research on the remains of fire care by older man found in Europe."
Additionally, Domingo Aranda caravaqueño stressed that this enclave is the perfect place for the scientific training of students of Biology and Anthropology Aqueología who come every summer to Caravaca from around the world.
The remains of the Black Cave have been studied by universities such as Berkeley (USA), Boston (USA) Arizona (USA), Toronto (USA), Trento (Italy) and Cologne (Germany), among others.
"Over the last year we have continued to research the evidence of fire, with remains of charred bones of animals in the care of fire by early man," reported the teacher and president of the Murcia Association for the Study and Paleoantología the Cuartenario, Michael J. Walker, who has been very satisfied with the twenty-five years working in the field caravaqueño, "because every year we get a few more intigrantes and interesting results."
The teacher said that "the uniqueness of the site increased by the presence of fossil human remains of Homo heidelbergensis. Also of note is the fact that each and every one of the levels in the sediment excavated, which already reach 5 feet deep , show the presence of human activity or continuously, without interruption ".
The excavation was carried out manually, with smaller instruments.
It has disrupted the sediment removed by washing over sieves and documented all items found.
This is an activity that has the support of the University of Murcia and the city of Caravaca de la Cruz and collaboration of Murcia Association for the Study of Anthropology and Quaternary (MUPANTQUAT).
Scientific management has been carried out by Michael J. Walker, Mariano López and Maria Haber, with the technical assistance of biologists Antonio Lopez, Jon Ortega, Azucena Aviles, Angel Buitrago and archaeologist Ignacio Martín.
The site of the Black Cave Strait of Quípar River is between 900,000 and 800,000 years old, which corresponds to the end of the Pleistocene Old or lower, and he Paleolithic remains have been found abundant fossils of animal and human teeth "Man Heidelberg "or" Homo heidelbergensis ".
Thanks to the work that is being developed, it has become an international reference for the study of human evolution.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz
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