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The Municipal People in the City of Caravaca has filed a motion on the matter for inclusion and vote at the next regular plenary session of July
The spokesman Jose Francisco Garcia highlighted the work of Professor Walker over 26 consecutive years and the positive impact for Caravaca and the Incarnation had this job
The Municipal People in the City of Caravaca has filed a motion for inclusion, debate and vote in the next regular plenary session in July, asking a street of the hamlet of La Encarnación to be labeled with the name of the anthropologist and professor University of Murcia Michael J. Walker, who is leading the excavation campaigns of the site of the Black River Cave Quípar Strait since 1990.
The Spokesman of the Municipal People's Party, Jose Francisco Garcia, explained the extensive work that Professor Walker has developed at the site of the Black Cave over 26 consecutive years, a task which has resulted in a study and care part of different Spanish and international universities and scientific publications.
He has also added that this work has helped to value the historical and archaeological Quípar Strait of Rio de la Encarnación.
Garcia said that currently there is a street in the incarnation of new openness, undertaken with the Municipal Investment Plan and parallel to the lounge of this hamlet, which still has no name, "and that would be suitable for bearing the name of this anthropologist as linked to the population. "
In addition, José Francisco García stressed that the spread has reached this enclave in recent years, revealing the names of the Black Cave, Caravaca de la Cruz and La Encarnacion and attracting a tourist interested in archeology and the natural environment.
In this sense, the popular spokesman recalled that on 11 July, the tenth lottery
National was devoted to the Black Cave of the Incarnation, which meant that the archaeological find Murcia reach all corners of Spain.
The Black Cave Strait of Rio Quipar has between 900,000 and 800,000 years old, which corresponds to the end of the Old or Lower Pleistocene.
The findings of recent excavations confirm that it is at the site of the Black Cave 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 human fossil remains of Homo heidelbergensis.
This caravaqueño site among the oldest 5 of the peninsula with the remains of fossil man.
Source: PP Caravaca de la Cruz
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