A catalan research team discovers the eruption mechanisms and inner structure of a 3.5-million-year-old volcano in Caldes de Malavella

13/09/2021

To find out, the researchers have generated a 3D model, the first of its kind in this type of geological structures

A current study on the Cansaladeta site confirms that it is a key place for the knowledge of the human population in the Francolí river valley 400,000 years ago

08/09/2021

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

1.4 million years ago in Europe, Orce became an area of attraction for the manufacture and use of stone tools

09/06/2021

Torrential rains in Barranco León allowed the first hominins to opportunistically take advantage of an accumulation of raw materials

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A catalan research team discovers the eruption mechanisms and inner structure of a 3.5-million-year-old volcano in Caldes de Malavella

13/09/2021

A current study on the Cansaladeta site confirms that it is a key place for the knowledge of the human population in the Francolí river valley 400,000 years ago

08/09/2021

1.4 million years ago in Europe, Orce became an area of attraction for the manufacture and use of stone tools

09/06/2021

28/04/2021

A new fossil species of small wolf, dated 1.6 million-years-old, is found at the sites of Orce, southern Spain

15/04/2021

For the first time Neanderthal nuclear DNA preserved in cave sediment has been successfully extracted and analyzed

17/03/2021

450,000 years ago, technological and subsistence advances could have helped to overcome climatic conditions marked by aridity and cold