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This morning there have been at a press conference findings Escavations XXII Campaign and Archaeological Paleontropológica in the Sima de las Palomas del Cabezo Gordo.
The press conference was held on the ground floor of the City of Torre-Pacheco and chaired by the Mayor of Torre Pacheco, Daniel García Madrid, Professor and Director of Excavation, Michael Walker and the student member Field School, Gonzalo Linares.
In the press conference press Professor Michael Walker commented that in the current season, which runs from July 23 to August 13 has advanced excavation depth respectable and now is on a layer to two meters below the articulated skeletons, and four feet below the rocky lens hood which had arrived sediment filling the pit when there methodical excavation began two decades ago.
The layer is extraordinarily rich in animal remains from the abundant turtle and the rabbit even horses and deer.
Some remains recovered in the current campaign show no signs of combustion but there are thousands of charred fragments, mostly small and crushed, indicating the importance of place for grilling meat.
Also found numerous flint tools, marble and quartz, among which there are tips and scrapers Mousterian of great beauty.
This campaign will draw several conclusions.
One of them published in the journal "Quaternary International" International Quaternary Association in which you write about the diet of Neanderthals Southeast, explaining that in addition to meat also ate vegetables.
The other conclusion is the use of fire.
The Mayor of Torre Pacheco, Daniel García Madrid, stressed the commitment to conclude Paleontropología Museum of Human Evolution and the Region of Murcia, which will have a valuable collection of original fossils, spectacular views of animals and plants and resources audiovisual scripts made under proposed by paleontologists and that will be distributed throughout the building rooms.
The museum visitors approach the world of paleontology hand of concepts such as geologic time, evolution, extinctions of species or the origin of the Earth and life.
Also, show how to form a fossil, paleontologist work and the way it digs a yacimiento.El building is erected on a plot of the municipality, with a size of 12,000 square meters, located on the road from San Cayetano, and represents an investment of more than six million euros (6. 545. 464) in charge of the Community.
In addition, the mayor has made holding a major conference in 2016 to be held in the museum, called by Professor Walker as a benchmark for international paleontropología.
The next Sunday, August 11, will celebrate the Open House in Reservoir paleoanthropological the Sima de las Palomas, which can be visited throughout the morning from 9:00 am to noon.
In addition, 7 to September 10 will take a course in the Universidad del Mar in the Performing Arts Center entitled "Neanderthal in the Sima de las Palomas.
Human evolution during the Pleistocene in the southeast.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Torre Pacheco
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