Despite currently having a small-scale excavated area, it has been possible to distinguish several moments of occupation and, within them, to identify areas of activity
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Torrential rains in Barranco León allowed the first hominins to opportunistically take advantage of an accumulation of raw materials
Its name, Canis orcensis, is dedicated to the Andalusian town where it has been found
Some of the samples were obtained from Atapuerca, a confirmed international benchmark for genetic studies of the first hominin populations
For the fourth consecutive year, the Universitat Rovira i Virgili appears in the QS World University Rankings by Subject. Chemistry and Chemical Engineering retain their places and two more have been added: Archaeology and Medicine, which until now had not featured on this list
The presence of macaques in northern Africa dates back to the upper Miocene, about 6-7 million years ago. Shortly thereafter (about 5,5 million years ago), first representatives are found in Europe (Spain and Italy), which migrated on during the Messinian Salinity Crisis. Now, an article published in Journal of Human Evolution and led by research staff from the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP), the Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES-CERCA), the Universitat Rovira i Virgili
This is revealed by a new site, yielding the oldest stone tools documented to date in the Oldupai Gorge
By applying forensic criteria, it has been possible to reconstruct how the trauma that ended the life of the deceased occurred
First author is Marina Lozano (IPHES-URV), who has published a paper about this research in the Journal of Archaeological Science
Since 2006, fifteen promotions of master students have been graduated and more than 200 research works have been completed
An international team of archaeologists compiles recent research on the reconstruction of prehistoric technologies
Both tools have been found during this field-season at Unit TD08, and they are around 600,000 years old, a time characterized in Europe by a striking scarcity of human presence
The work is published in a scientific article led by Gizéh Rangel-de Lázaro of the Natural History Museum in London and an associated researcher of the IPHES-URV
It lived around 2.6 million years ago and was significantly larger than the extant members of the genus Golunda
The move online and the opportunity to study part-time help students as they prepare for their professional careers
Genetic material from an 800,000-year-old human fossil has been retrieved for the first time
This is not just a health crisis. It is a social and universal crisis
It has been revealed through the study of cut marks on fossils from Atapuerca and other European sites. The research has been led by Francesc Marginedas, a student of the Erasmus Mundus Master’s in Quaternary Archaeology and Human Evolution Degree at the Rovira i Virgili University
The journal Nature has reported the finding of a rhinoceros tooth at the site in Dmanisi, Georgia, where members of IPHES and the URV are working
A series of activities took place from 5 to 19 May to inform people about urban life in classical antiquity