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Natural PlacesSite Name: Cueva Negra Alternative Name: Cueva Negra del Estrecho, Black CaveCountry: 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
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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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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