The Palarq Foundation, a private, non-profit entity charity that supports the archeology and human paleontology missions of Spanish researchers, has teamed up with Dr. Eudald Carbonell, co-director of Atapuerca and vice president of Fundación Atapuerca, to bring human paleontology closer to all audi
The Palarq Foundation , a private, non-profit entity that supports the archeology and human paleontology missions of Spanish researchers outside Europe, closes 2020 by expanding its activity and maintaining the National Award for Archeology and Paleontology that bears his name and will be developed
30 coins , the HBO series directed by Álex de la Iglesia, places us in the town of Pedraza (Segovia), where one of these coins appears that signified the betrayal and death of Christ. According to the passage mentioned above, Judas Iscariot , a disciple of Jesus, agreed with the Sanhedrin to betray
The most relevant feature of El Argar was the establishment of acute political and economic inequalities, which have led to qualifying it as one of the first States in Europe. However, his interest is not limited to the exciting topic of the emergence of permanent social dissymmetries, but also inc
History of comic art. The classical world , the comic to learn history that triumphs and no publisher wanted before (the quote is from El País), is the book that anyone who wants to understand what art is and what its history has been should read. And it is the book that any ESO manual should be. Fo
The archaeologist of the Celts In 1943 the archaeologist Blas Taracena published an article titled Trophy-heads in Celtic Spain , which would become a benchmark. At that time he was excavating in Numancia and the text focuses on the discovery of four human skulls in the underground floor of the so-c
In 2006 a Spanish-Tanzanian team under the co-direction of M. Domínguez-Rodrigo, A. Mabulla and E. Baquedano accessed the lower beds of Olduvai (www.olduvaiproject.org). Our team went back to the oldest layers of the gorge to unravel the origin of human behavior. The fundamental questions we ask our
The first area where these changes took place was the Fertile Crescent, the region comprising Mesopotamia, the Zagros, the Taurus, and the Levant. Between 12,000 and 9,800 years before Christ, the last hunter-gatherers began to settle, practicing a diversified economy , in which the collection of ce
It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of the Dr. Larissa Bonfante , professor emeritus at New York University, on August 23, 2019. Larissa Bonfante was a true eminence in the field of Etruscology and the classical world, disciplines to whose study she devoted most of her life. She was
Estonia was thought not to be significantly developed during the Bronze Age due to a general shortage of pieces. However, the discovery of numerous remains in the first excavations of the fortified hill of Asva in the 1930s it revealed a whole culture unknown until then. Archaeological evidence show
On May 1 a new campaign of archaeological activities at the Heping Dao B site (Keelung, Taiwan), which ended on July 15. The project, co-directed by Dr. María Cruz Berrocal (IIIPC, University of Cantabria) and Dr. Tsang Chenghwa (National Tsing Hua University), began its journey in 2011 and to date
Vegetius explains that accurate communication is essential to the tactics of the armies , which can be carried out by means of vocal signals, commands spoken by the commander; semivowels, which require prior preparation to interpret the instruments when sounding; and silent, where the banners, emble
The current state of Sindh, in Pakistan, is the heart of the Indus civilization and is the working area of the ModAgrO project , a collaboration between Pompeu Fabra University and Shah Abdul Latif University. The project, financed by the Palarq Foundation, has different lines of research that see
In 2015 we started a research project in the Quirimbas archipelago, north of Mozambique[1] (Fig.1). His goal was to learn about the role of this area, hitherto considered secondary, within the Swahili trade. Swahili are the populations that occupied the coastal and pre-coastal strip that extends fro
A good example of what was said is that of the evolution of the image of Neanderthals, from aggressive and hunched over apes, to intelligent and social humans. This influenced (and was influenced) in a linear and progressive concept of evolution, with a racist paradigm of evolutionary difference bet
In a country where matters like history , archeology and culture in general seem to be at the opposite end of the world of business and company, we interviewed a personality who undoubtedly unites both vocations. Antonio Gallardo Ballart (Barcelona, 1936) has not only developed a brilliant profess
The current landscape is very different from what we knew long ago a few years, and this is due to the application of new dating and research methods, and to the discoveries that are being made outside the Iberian Peninsula and France. Today we know that the first cave images, that is, those found o
Teresa Bedman She studied Egyptology in Manchester and is an Honorary Member of the Mexican Society of Egyptology or the Sophia Foundation of Palma de Mallorca, among others. She specialized in the female role in Egypt, she has published books such as Hatshepsut, from queen to pharaoh of Egypt (Ma
These numbers support the claim that this collection constitutes the sample of neanderthals largest in the Iberian Peninsula and allows for a research and dissemination program that covers the different levels of biological organization, from the anatomical and population to the molecular level. Aft
Mary Anning was born in the south of Victorian England, in Lyme Regis, in 1799. It was a time when evolution was unheard of, when species were still thought of as immutable and perfect creations, and when, at the same time, fossils and dinosaurs were beginning to be known and famous, remains of a pr
In his latest book Cosmogonies, the historian Julien dHuy explains how the study of certain myths, using advanced technologies, would make it possible to go back to the origins of humanity! Of myths and men. Myth of the Cosmogonic Diving, of the Stolen Sun, or of the Woman-Bird… All human beings
A delicate Palaeolithic Venus has just been discovered in the Bryansk region of Russia. Two-sided views of the Venus of Bryansk (Russia). IVORY. Barely 5 cm high, carved in the ivory of a woolly mammoth tusk, a new Paleolithic Venus dated -23,000 years ago was recently discovered in Siberia. With
Genome sequencing of an 11,500-year-old girl reveals the existence of a previously unknown ancient population in America. It confirms the long-debated hypothesis that the continent was populated via the Bering Strait, between Siberia and Alaska. The discovery of a prehistoric fetus and infant at t
This vase carved from a single block of glass, dating from the very end of Antiquity, had been found crushed but complete in a tomb in Autun, in Saône-et-Loire. Exceptional in its rarity, it has just been restored to its former glory after a delicate restoration. But today its content, just as extra