Mis fotos

      A group of 150 archaeologists, paleontologists, geologists and surveyors work for 40 days in the fields of Fig Tree Glade in the suburb of Pinilla del Valle, to try to find what could be the first tomb of the Iberian Peninsula Neanderthal and the most southerly in Europe.

       The work, which began yesterday and are part of the eleventh season of excavations at the Regional Archaeological Museum (MAR) --under the Ministry of Culture and Sport--, will be performed in the only place in the world that brings together three Neanderthal sites as close together other: the Navalmaíllo coat and the caves of the Good Paint and Off-Deck. This area, called 'glades', was declared in 2005 a Cultural (BIC) in the category of archeology and paleontology by the Community of Madrid.

       It is the Cave Des-Deck which raises more expectations from the group of experts, as during the campaign of 2011 found four baby teeth of the species Homo neanderthalensis that could have belonged to a girl. The researchers named it The girl Lozoya Valley in honor of the river that bathes the valley. In this new campaign work will focus on verifying that it was an intentional enterramienro, which would make him the first Neanderthal grave of the peninsula and most meriodional in Europe.

      During the last campaign were also found in this cave symbolic signs that make it one of the most attractive sites of world prehistory, because there is currently much debate in the scientific community about the symbolic capabilities of Neanderthals.

      The excavations were conducted under the direction and co-director of the Atapuerca paleoanthropologist Juan Luis Arsuaga; the director of the Regional Archaeological Museum of Madrid, Enrique Baquedano; and the geologist and deputy director of the National Research Center on Human Evolution, Alfredo Perez-Gonzalez. For the deposits will also students from different disciplines related to archeology and paleontology.

      Spain is rich in archaeological sites; so, I hope that Juan Luis Arzuaga and his team can finish this such an interesting and important project for Spain.

Best regards,

Luis.

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