They are especially interested in the lithic industry, that is, stone tools created by the first hominids.
The Cueva Victoria, in Cartagena, continues to keep secrets inside. Now, two paleontologists and professors from the Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona and researchers from the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution (IPHES) want to open a new line of research to find out if, in addition to animal activity, there are also indications of having been inhabited by humans.
The vice mayor and head of the Archaeological Heritage area, Ana Belén Castejón, held a meeting with Eduald Carbonell and Antoni Canals. Both are part of the Atapuerca research team, in Burgos, and worked in Cueva Victoria in its early days.
«I consider that it is a great opportunity for Cueva Victoria, since we are talking about two very prestigious researchers in the field of paleontology and who, in addition, already have experience in this site. We are going to study your proposal very seriously,” said Castejón.
The researchers are especially interested in the lithic industry, that is, stone tools created by the first hominids, which could have inhabited the surroundings of Cueva Victoria and which were located in the first excavations of the site.
These fossils are close to a million years old, since they date from the Lower Pleistocene, which coincides with the Lower Paleolithic stage. That is, they would be part of the tools used by the first settlers of this environment.
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