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The Palarq Foundation is a privately owned, non-for-profit organization created with the purpose of financing Spanish Archaeological and Human Paleontology missions outside of Europe. The area of research comprises from the paleontology era to the prehistorical epochs and the historical-monument relevant eras in general.

AN ISRAELI AND CATALAN TEAM IS TRYING TO SOLVE THE MYSTERIES SURROUNDING THE PRESENCE OF 1.5 MILLION-YEAR-OLD STONE BALLS AT SOME SITES (IPHES 3/9/20)

Pequeña muestra de esfereoides encontrados en el yacimiento achelense de Ubeidiya, en Israel - Foto S. TittonIPHES

This collaboration is led by the IPHES and is funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation. It is presently unknown how these tools were developed or what they were used for and high-tech 3D artifact analysis will be used for this research.

New fossils and artifacts show Homo erectus crafted a diverse toolkit (Science News 03/04/20)

Some stone tools have a single sharpened edge, while others consist of double-edged designs.

La Garma, prehistoric “time capsule”

La Garma is a hill of 186 m high located next to the village of Omoño (Ribamontán al Monte, Cantabria), 11 km east of the city of Santander and about 5 km from the current coast. This place houses, in several caves and galleries of a complicated karstic system and in several open air sites,…

PIECE OF A SKULL FOUND IN GREECE ‘IS THE OLDEST HUMAN FOSSIL OUTSIDE AFRICA’ (Archaeology World 2/21/20)

700,000 years old Skull discovered in Greek cave, completely shatters the Out of Africa theory.

Ancient inscription reveals lost civilization in Turkey that may have defeated King Midas (LiveScience 2/25/20)

The lost kingdom was one of the largest settlements to exist in ancient Turkey at the time.

An archeometric look at native and Phoenician pottery in the Iberian SE

Among the tasks emanating from the Project ARQUEOTOPOS III – Carthago Nova from its coastal environment. Paleotopography and environmental evolution of the central sector of the Iberian Southeast. Population and production dynamics (HAR2017-85726-C2-1-P), a line of work has been initiated focused on the study of the potters and potteries of the first millennium BC identified…

Neanderthal ‘skeleton’ is first found in a decade (BBC News 082/19/20)

Researchers have described the first “articulated” remains of a Neanderthal to be discovered in a decade.

Chronology of the early medieval churches of Santa Eulalia de Bóveda and San Breixo de Ouvigo

Galicia preserves several late and early medieval churches (10th to 5th centuries) which in recent years have been systematically studied to try to obtain an absolute dating of their oldest phases (Sánchez-Pardo and Blanco Rotea, 2014). Thus, the building materials of Santa Comba de Bande (Bande), Santa Eulalia de Bóveda (Lugo), the basilica of La…

PREHISTORIC CLAY COFFIN BURIALS UNCOVERED IN NORTHERN EGYPT (Archaeology World 02/15/20)

On 10 February 2020, the Foundation opened a call for projects for research teams working in archaeology or human palaeontology outside Europe

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…

How did the last Neanderthals live? (BBC News 01/29/20)

GETTY IMAGES Image captionLos neandertales tenían costumbres muy parecidas al ser humano moderno, según recientes descubrimientos. BBC

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.

A massacre of early Neolithic farmers in the high Pyrenees at Els Trocs, Spain (Nature 02/07/20)

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.

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