Founded in 2016 as a non-profit organization, the Palarq Foundation is a private entity whose main purpose is to support and encourage Spanish archaeology and human palaeontology. This institution finances 48 Spanish projects of this type abroad (except Europe) and another 54 in Spain. On 10 February 2020, the Foundation opened a call for projects…
In the autonomous region of Catalonia, Spain, archaeologists have uncovered a treasure trove of prehistoric rock art that is around 15,000 years old
In many ways, the last surviving Neanderthals are a mystery. But four caves in Gibraltar have given an unprecedented insight into what their lives might have been like.
At the site of Els Trocs in the Spanish Pyrenees, rivalling groups of either migrating early farmers or farmers and indigenous hunter-gatherers collided violently around 5300 BCE.
(CNN): Archaeologists have discovered a 7,000-year-old Neolithic well in eastern Europe, which they believe is the oldest wooden structure in the world.
The Prado Vargas site is located in the Merindad de Sotoscueva, forming part of Ojo Guareña, one of the most spectacular karst complexes in Europe, where this cavity called Prado Vargas opens. It is a fossilized emergence that closes a steeply sloping meadow that slides down to the Trema River. A place where its valleys,…
Africans today possess more Neandertal ancestry than previously thought, a new analysis shows, though still not as much as most people outside of Africa.
We reveal another in our new study of the Neanderthals who lived in Chagyrskaya Cave in southern Siberia around 54,000 years ago.
This project’s main objective is the study of the different port areas related to the various population centres established in Empúries between the 6th century BC, when the Foceian commercial Emporium was created, and the 7th and 8th centuries AD, a time of profound transformation that marks the passage to the medieval period. Knowledge of…
From a burial site in Cameroon, archaeologists recovered human genetic material dating as far back as 8,000 years.
The manufacture of large-format thin sheets of the Abric Romani homes is a project that will allow us to determine the number of human occupations in Mousterian Qa level. This objective is focused on the analysis of the record in the sediments produced by the use of fire. The thin sheets of the sediments of…
