A site with footprints of large African mammals from 778,000 years ago has been discovered in Tarifa

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The Instituto Andaluz del Patrimonio Histórico (IAPH), research center of the Council of Culture and Sport of the Junta de Andalucía, as part of the team of experts led by Eduardo Mayoral of the University of Huelva, finds the existence, on a beach in Tarifa (Cadiz), of a pleistocene field of traces of large mammals, whose date would be close to 778,000 years. This site is the only one, to date, with traces of this zoo group in continental Europ…

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The origin of the investigation was a citizen notification of "possible dinosaur footprints" found by chance in the area around Las Palomas Island The cave paintings of Laja Alta are confirmed to be the oldest in the Mediterranean

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The Vestigium Project of the Center of Underwater Archaeology begins to bear its first fruits with this discovery on the Island of the Palomas (Tarifa) The Councilor of Culture, Patricia del Pozo, values the research of the Center of Sub Archaeology