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The University of Murcia, with the support of the City of Caravaca, develops XXV paleontological and archaeological campaign

It has begun the campaign XXV archaeological dig in the Black Cave of the Incarnation, part of the Field School Quaternary Palaeontology and Prehistory in the Region of Murcia.

This is an activity organized by the University of Murcia and the city of Caravaca de la Cruz, in collaboration with the Murcia Association for the Study of Anthropology and Quaternary (MUPANTQUAT).

Until 22 July, at the work site caravaqueño a team of twenty students and graduates from universities in the United States, Hong Kong, UK and Spain.

As in previous campaigns, scientific direction is 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 aim of the present excavation campaign focuses on expanding the excavated area of ​​the home and the deeper levels of the deposit.

Special attention to the remains of fire and fauna and lithic industry will be given.

Thanks to the work being developed in the last two decades, the site of the Black Cave has become an international reference for the study of human evolution.

In this enclave, located next to Quípar River in the Strait Historic Site of The Incarnation, have been found numerous remains of fossil man, wildlife and a set of utensils, as a bifacial hand ax.

Cueva Negra Strait of Quípar River is a paleoanthropological site where remains of Homo heidelbergensis appear and have a length of between 780,000 and 900,000 years as indicated by three methods of dating, biostratigraphy (extinct rodents and other animals), the luminescence optical sediment and paleomagnetism.

Documented the presence of a fire in the deepest levels of Cueva Negra, taking into account the age of the site, it is the oldest European fire.

In Africa's oldest fire evidence in Palaeolithic sites.

Palaeolithic whole "Acheulean-levaloisomusteroide" includes both "Acheulean" component, a hand ax carved in limestone and chert flakes and levaloisenses flakes and fragments, both flint and limestone, with abrupt retouch "musteroide" and even forms "Mousterian" unmistakable as scrapers, denticulate, proto-limaces, etc..

Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz