Portal de Caravaca de la Cruz
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Caravaca de la Cruz (Murcia), July 3, 2015 The president of State Lotteries, Inmaculada García Martínez;
Acting Counselor of Agriculture and Water of the Region of Murcia, Adela Martinez Cacho, and the mayor of Caravaca de la Cruz, Jose Moreno, today presented the tenth bullet National Lottery Draw sábado11 July, dedicated to finding Archeological Black Cave of the Incarnation in Caravaca de la Cruz (Murcia).
This draw will sell 10 million of tickets, meaning that the Murcia archaeological find will reach all corners of Spain.
The tenth bullet National bears the following legend: 'Hand Axe, Black Cave archaeological find of the Incarnation in Caravaca de la Cruz (Murcia) 780-900000 years'.
The fluvial La Cueva Negra
The tool was found in 2003 in the Pleistocene cave site of Black River Quípar Strait, located in the Incarnation of Caravaca de la Cruz.
It is a hand ax carved on both faces.
For utensil Black Cave, the piece consists of a limestone ridge flattened which was carved by thirty extractions and still retains some cortex.
Cueva Negra piece is dated by paleomagnetic biochronology and between 780 and 900,000 years ago.
With a similar age were also found in Israel.
The presentation of the tenth National Lottery has coincided with the start of the campaign XXVI and palaeontological Archaeological Dig in La Cueva Negra.
This excavation every July is developed with the collaboration of the autonomous region, the University of Murcia and the City of Caravaca de la Cruz.
The campaign is coordinated by the Murcia Association for the Study of Paleontology and Quaternary (Mupantquat), under the direction of Professors Michael J. Walker, Mariano Martinez and Maria Lopez Uriarte Haber.
The team is made up of about 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 Black Cave has a length of between 780,000 and 900,000 years and has become an international reference for the study of human evolution.
In addition to the fire, the most significant findings are abundant faunal remains of the time, and Acheulean lithic industry, with the discovery of Europe's oldest fluvial.
The findings of recent excavations confirm that it is on the site of La Cueva Negra where evidence of use of fire is localized by the oldest man in Europe.
This is verified by the remains of charred bones and flint tools located.
The uniqueness of the site increased by the presence of fossil human remains of Homo heidelbergensis.
This caravaqueño site among the oldest 5 of the peninsula with the remains of fossil man.
The Black Cave has been studied by many international scientists, universities such as Arizona, Boston, Oxfgord or Lyons, with trips to the site itself or through studies in its laboratories.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz
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