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<< Other Photo Pages >> Cueva Negra - Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature in Spain in Murcia

Submitted by bat400 on Friday, 24 October 2014  Page Views: 3420

Natural PlacesSite Name: Cueva Negra Alternative Name: Cueva Negra del Estrecho, Black Cave
Country: Spain
NOTE: This site is 6.342 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Murcia Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Murcia  Nearest Village: La Encarnación
Latitude: 38.024000N  Longitude: 1.899W
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Cueva Negra
Cueva Negra submitted by dodomad : Cueva Negra. Fortuna. Site in Murcia Spain Image copyright: juanito1948. (Juan Bosco Hernandez Portal), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)
A large rock shelter above the Rio Quípar (Murcia), facing north. Initially explored in 1981, extensive excavations starting in 1990 discovered features and artifacts showing that early man, dating back 780,000 years, used fire and had a mastery over several stone tool designs.

Source:

Walker, M.J., et al., "Cueva Negra del Estrecho del Río Quípar (Murcia, Spain): A late Early Pleistocene homininsite with an Acheulo-Levalloiso-Mousteroid Palaeolithic assemblage," Quaternary International (2012), doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2012.04.038

Note: Rock-shelter in Spain shows evidence of early human use of fire, see the comment on our page
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Cueva Negra submitted by dodomad : La Cueva Negra. Santuario Íbero-romano de Fortuna Site in Murcia Spain Este es uno de los tres abrigos de la Cueva Negra. El panel explicativo (reproduce los textos y los acompaña con sus traducciones, la pena es que en la actualidad está muy estropeado (a día de hoy 27 de Agosto de 2011), esperemos que lo cambien pronto pues un yacimiento de esta categoría se lo merece. Image copyr... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Cueva Negra
Cueva Negra submitted by dodomad : La Cueva Negra. Santuario Íbero-romano de Fortuna Site in Murcia Spain Aquí he tratado por medio de programa de retoque fotográfico contrastar los tenues escritos para apreciarlos mejor. Los "Tituli Picti" o escritos latinos en la pared de la Cueva Negra (Fortuna, Murcia, España). Son junto con unos aparecidos en Turquía las únicas manifestaciones que de este tipo se encuentran en... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Cueva Negra
Cueva Negra submitted by dodomad : Cueva Negra. Fortuna. Site in Murcia Spain Image copyright: juanito1948. (Juan Bosco Hernandez Portal), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Rock-Shelter in Spain Evidences Early Human Use of Fire by bat400 on Thursday, 21 August 2014
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In a report co-authored by Michael Walker and colleagues of Spain's Murcia University, scientists suggest that early humans who lived in the Cueva Negra (Black Cave) rock-shelter of southeastern Spain about 800,000 years ago used fire, and that they exhibited behaviors that indicated a cognitively sophisticated late early Pleistocene use of resources and tools in their environment. The detailed report is published in the upcoming Volume 15 of Popular Archaeology Magazine.

The rock-shelter, located in the face of a cliff overlooking the Quipar river and the small village of La Encarnación, became the subject of initial exploration by archaeologists in 1981. But full systematic excavations didn't begin until 1990, when an archaeological team led by Walker and colleagues with the Murcia University Experimental Sciences Research Group undertook detailed investigation that continued for another 25 field seasons. What they uncovered were 5 meters of sediment containing late Pleistocene (somewhat before 780,000 years ago) finds, including hominin (early human, possibly H. heidelbergensis) teeth, a rich artifact assemblage, and an array of ancient flora and fauna remains that bespoke an ancient climate of warm, moist environmental conditions. Their analysis and interpretation of the finds may have, they maintain, important implications for early human behavior.

"The most important findings at Cueva Negra concern human activity," write Walker and colleagues in their report. "Undoubted evidence of fire has been uncovered."* They point to the evidence of sediment combustion, thermally altered chert and burnt animal bone found in a layer measured at 4.5 meters in depth.

"A fire-place is not a hearth," the authors continue. "The Cueva Negra could have brought glowing brands left by a forest fire into the cave to establish and tend a fire where rain and wind would not put it out. They may well have been less afraid of fire outside than other animals they saw fleeing from it (which could have led them to play with fire in order to drive animals towards natural death traps, such as swamps, enabling dismemberment and roasting). This does not mean they could reproduce or control fire: there is a dearth of archaeological evidence for hearths or fire-pits before 0.5 Ma."

Cueva Negra is not the only site that has evidenced early use of fire by early humans. For example, the site of Bnot Ya'akov Bridge in Israel has been claimed to show human control of fire some time between 790,000 and 690,000 years ago, and evidence has emerged at Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa for the use of fire by around 1 million years ago. There are also other sites showing this possibility in Africa and China. But Cueva Negra could be the earliest, if not one of the earliest, sites in Europe demonstrating this development.

Other findings suggested a clear mastery of material resources for survival. The assemblage of stone tool artifacts recovered (classified by the authors as "Acheulo-Levalloiso-Mousteroid") showed evidence of the use of three different core reduction methodologies or sequences, and that natural stone resources were exploited as much as 40 km downstream from the site and 30 km upstream.

Concludes Walker, et al., "Research at Cueva Negra throws new light, including fire-light, on the cognitive versatility, manual dexterity, and technical aptitude of early humans ca. 0.8 Ma in S.E. Spain. They exploited their surroundings in a competent fashion that implies precise knowledge and accurate awareness of what was available for survival."

Thanks to coldrum for the link. For more, see popular-archaeology.com/issue/03012014.
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