ANTONIO ARMERO (First Settlers in Extremadura Team), and closes when the group leaves.
are 15, mostly young Extremadura, and since Saturday, have robbed the cavity, for a good cause, the tranquility enjoyed by the rest of the time. They have installed a scaffold, a table, and walk back and forth with ease, from 25 feet wide and 30 meters high which is the grotto. Clean the floor with brushes, exploring every square inch, and if they find something that catches their attention, teach it to Antoni Canals.
He is a paleontologist at the University Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, and co-leads the group with Isabel Sauceda and Eudald Carbonell (Prince of Asturias award for his work in Atapuerca). A foot cave, Canals explains that in the remainder of the month, will spend half of each day in the rabbit, the cave Beethoven abused in the street, in the residential Vistahermosa.
For years, that place is now a group of university mima was anything but a desirable site. Served as a dunghill, a shelter for the homeless', the pet cemetery ... And all this despite the fact that it was known as a potential archaeological site. To our knowledge, the first was advised of the Pan Rioja Ismael Ciriaco Fernández (1889-1968), who discovered the cave, and provided the first data. He did not have any serious initiative to intervene in the site until the early nineties. It was the hand of the University of Extremadura.
As a human being is able to stumble several times on the same stone, after that university research, the bad life returned to the rabbit, who returned to practice as a dump.
In 1999, again EPPEX clean the cave, aided by members of ARBA (Association for the Recovery of Indigenous Forests). And she again, this time to get a dig in 2010. "The Rabbit is important because it provides information on the transition period from the Upper Palaeolithic to the Neolithic period," says Antonio Canals, "she found in pollen, flint, polished or ceramic we speak of the last hunter-gatherers and the first production companies, which would then be the first gardeners of the Ribera del Marco. " So, with a key moment of Prehistory in particular and Caceres Calerizo in particular: the changing economy of hunting and gathering to agriculture and livestock.
In all of this will continue to investigate in this campaign, including as a new holding an open day on Monday 25, 10 to 13 and from 17 to 20. There will be information panels and explanations by the Catalan paleontologist. "What do this year, extends Canals-will serve to gradually add information so that in the end, we can realize the complete monograph of the cavity. "
And once that is done, what you would like to First Settlers is that the rabbit is integrated into a network of archaeological Caceres, and that tissue was, in one way or another, available to the public. In the network Maltravieso occupy a prominent place, the jewel in the crown of local archeology, closed the investigation in 2008 by decision of the Junta de Extremadura, to understand that given the degree of deterioration, these works were a threat, something that never EPPEX experts agreed. Last week, the regional government announced that excavations may resume next year, news that Canals assessed as positive. "It is a reason to be happy, of course," says paleontologist, "and a decision which, in a sense, is to endorse our view that the excavations pose no risk to Maltravieso."
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