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The mayor of Caravaca de la Cruz, Domingo Aranda, received today at the Plenary Hall of the City Council multidisplinar team manager from July 1 to carry out the campaign XIX paleoanthropologist and Archaeological Excavations at Cueva Negra.
During the ceremony the director of the work, the Professor of Physical Anthropology of the University of Murcia Michael Walker, has provided different data that demonstrate the importance of the site located in the Strait of Rio Quípar.
The mayor declared that the work being carried out during the last eleven years in this place near the hamlet of La Encarnación are a clear set of history and heritage and make an example of the archaeological resources of the municipality.
Also, Domingo Aranda has overtaken the media present at the event which is developing a project to convert the Strait Historic Site Cuevas de La Encarnación, inhabited continuously since Argar culture (1700 BC), in an archaeological park .
The project will be submitted to the Ministry of Culture for possible funding through the "One percent cultural."
The site of the Black Cave, with approximately 800,000 years old, is comparable in time to de Atapuerca and he found fossil remains of man or Homo heidelbergensis Preneandertal Europe, as well as numerous remains of prehistoric plants and animals.
As explained by Professor Walker, the Black Cave is an international reference for the study of human evolution, since the Paleolithic remains found in recent years set up the singular "Acheulean-levaloisomusteroide" Europe's oldest.
The Black Cave was used by the fossil man during a warm interglacial period at the end of the Pleistocene about 800,000 years old, according to Professor Walker, who has declared that "primitive man enjoyed in this place caravaqueño of biodiversity provided by the proximity of lakes, swamps and forests bordering the valley. "
Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz
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