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Experts and students from different countries will meet during the month of July at the site of La Cueva Negra, located in the hamlet of La Encarnación caravaqueña to participate in the XXVI Archaeological excavation campaign, which takes place each summer in collaboration with the City of Caravaca de la Cruz and the University of Murcia.
The Black Cave has a length of between 780,000 and 900,000 years, according to studies indicate biochronology and paleomagnetism.
In addition to the fire, the most significant findings documented over 26 campaigns are abundant faunal remains of the time, and Acheulean lithic industry, with the discovery of Europe's oldest fluvial and Mousterian.
The work will be coordinated by the Murcia Association for the Study of Paleontology and Quaternary (Mupantquat), under the guidance of teachers archaeological Michael J. Walker, Mariano Martinez and Maria Lopez Uriarte Haber.
The team will consist of twenty people, including volunteers from the University of Murcia, various universities in the UK, Westem University of Australia, University of Queensland in Australia and Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan.
"The 2015 campaign will begin on Thursday July 2nd and runs until 23 March. The objectives are to deepen the older layers to continue the excavation of the oldest fire in Europe", as indicated by the archaeologist Mariano Lopez, who reported that created the tag # CuevaNegra2015 the social network Twitter, where they will be discussed developments of this campaign.
The Black Cave illustrate the tickets of the National Lottery
Upon its request from the City of Caravaca de la Cruz to State Lotteries, the Acheulean hand ax from La Cueva Negra illustrate the tenth National Lottery 11th July.
The tool was found in 2003 in the Pleistocene cave site of Black River Strait Quípar.
The tickets are already on sale from four weeks before the draw.
It is an Acheulean hand ax hand ax carved on both faces.
For the ax Black Cave was excavated in a deep position in the unit II.
Although it has lost the tip, you have the typical almond-shaped hand axes.
Bifaces found more senior are some hand axes and cleavers 1.7 ago in East Africa.
They have also documented more than 1 million years in Palestine and India.
Part of La Cueva Negra is dated by paleomagnetic biochronology and between 780 and 900,000 años.Con makes a similar age Cueva Negra are also in Israel.
They are commonly called "Acheulean" biphases by reference to a site in northern France called Saint-Acheul.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz
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