La Fundación Palarq es una entidad privada y sin ánimo de lucro que se crea con la finalidad de apoyar las Misiones en Arqueología y Paleontología Humana Españolas en el extranjero, excluyendo Europa, dentro de una perspectiva que abarca desde la etapa paleontológica a las épocas prehistóricas y las históricas en interés monumental
University Institute for Research in Iberian Archaeology – Universidad de Jaén.
Location: Jaén and Italy.
Description: The project deals with a specific period: the Second Punic War, although understood as part of a historical process related to the social, political and cultural changes derived from the Roman conquest in the area of the Ancient Mediterranean.
Institute of History, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas.
Location: Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.
Description: The transition from Olduvayan to Acheulean and its relationship to the evolution of Homo habilis to Homo erectus is one of the most debated topics in modern Paleoanthropology.
Universitat de Barcelona-IPOA (Institute of the Ancient Near East).
Location: The Oxirrinco site (El-Bahnasa, Egypt), is located 190 km. south of Cairo
Description: Throughout almost three consecutive decades of archaeological work in the High Necropolis of Oxirrinco, there are many and varied findings, the study of which has given us valuable information about the evolution of religious-funeral beliefs at the site.
SONARS (National Association of Underwater Archaeology).
Ses Aiguades (Alcúdia), Mallorca.
Description: This research seeks to deepen the technical, methodological and underwater study of the prehistoric caves of Mallorca and, likewise, to know more about the karst habitats and their relationship with the land and underwater archaeological sites that surround them.
Institute of Evolution in Africa (IDEA), Universidad de Alcalá de Henares.
Location: Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.
Description: Olduvai contains the best archaeological record during the first million years of human existence. A project that aims to reconstruct how human behavior arose and to do so, we try to know how the first sites of humanity were formed.
Lunch Break Science is a weekly online series featuring short lectures or interviews with Leakey Foundation scientists Lunch Break Science #16| Isaiah Nengo Meet Leakey Foundation grantee Isaiah Nengo and learn about his work uncovering fossil primates in Kenya.
Tens of thousands of ice age paintings across a cliff face shed light on people and animals from 12,500 years ago.
Neanderthal thumbs were better adapted to holding tools in the same way that we hold a hammer, according to a paper published in Scientific Reports.
Experts discovered the 4,500 bodies in Tauste district near Zaragoza in Spain Andalusian Islamic era spanned from 711-1492 so the tombs are 1,000 years old Remains will be cataloged, stored for research and studied over coming years
Asoc. Cooperación y Protección del Patrimonio Histórico Artístico y Arqueológico Internacional (ACOPHIA) / Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid. Department of Egyptian and Near Eastern Antiquities
Location: Heracleópolis Magna.
Description: Heracleópolis Magna was the first site excavated by Spaniards in Egyptian territory, started in 1966 by Martín Almagro and continued until the present day under the direction of M. Carmen Pérez Die, in collaboration with the Egyptian Antiquities Service of Beni Suef.
Department of Prehistory and Archaeology, Universidad de Sevilla (Spain).
Location: Málaga y Sevilla.
Description: Megalithism was one of the phenomena most closely associated with the expansion of the Neolithic way of life: Megalithic monuments ordered social life and the perception that human beings had of their own existence
An interdisciplinary team from several Spanish universities and research centres has analysed more than 600 fossils recovered from across the Iberian Peninsula.