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The regional chief executive announced that the Community is finalizing its incorporation into the European Cultural Route of the Council of Europe
The president of the Community, Alberto Garre, said today that the Region of Murcia has been at the forefront of the international archaeological research for the importance of sites like the Sima de la Palomas, Torre Pacheco, and the other sets paleontological heritage.
Garre visited the excavations of the Sima de las Palomas in the Peak Gordo, accompanied by the director of the excavations, Professor Michael Walker, who explained all the work done in the last year and in previous years, and has recovered over 300 skeletal remains belonging to 10 Neanderthal individuals, with a length of between 55,000 and 45,000 years, which is "an exceptional event on the world stage," said the president.
This site has highlighted important discoveries about Neanderthal Man, the last step before our current known species appear, Homo Sapiens.
Therefore, the Sima de las Palomas is Neanderthal Man site most important Spanish Mediterranean area and the second largest on Fossil Man in the Iberian Peninsula.
The Region of Murcia, with this site, or as the Black Cave, Caravaca de la Cruz, has one of the most important paleontological heritage sites of Europe.
Professor Michael Walker reported on the progress of the new season of excavation of the site has done with its national and international partners are revealing details of life Neanderthal, employing utensils or the animals they hunted and used for subsistence, ranging from turtles, species such as red deer or fallow deer, or other extinct as Elephantidae, hippos or panthers.
In this sense, Garre stressed the "professional and thorough work of archaeologists and students, who year after year make important discoveries and allows us to reconstruct what life was like thousands of years ago in this territory."
Among the remains found so far, stresses the Neanderthal child's face exposed during 2013, in a temporary exhibition at the Archaeological Museum of Murcia and the Neanderthal pelvis known as 'Pigeon', name given in honor of the field, finding outstanding to be almost complete, unusual for remains of Neanderthals known deposits.
European Cultural Route of the Council of Europe
At this meeting, the president announced that the Community, through the Ministry of Education, Culture and Universities, is handling the inclusion of the Sima de la Palomas in a European Cultural Route of the Council of Europe, which will be a great outreach to paleontological heritage of the region.
Also, for this purpose, it is building the Museum of Paleontology and Human Evolution in the Region of Murcia, who aspires to become a cultural center of the first order that will favor the external projection of the region as a destination for prestige and high value-added circuits of cultural and tourism promotion.
This museum will be unified in a single venue paleoanthropological much of the rich heritage of the Region of Murcia, a project being implemented by the City of Torre Pacheco and has a contribution of the regional administration of more than 6.5 million euros.
Source: CARM
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