Cova del Bolomor

17 November 2020

“BOLOMOR’S FIRE” Pepe Azorin (Altea 2020)

You have completed the archaeological excavation campaign Bolomor-2020 will be remembered by the limitations imposed by pandemic Covid-19. Despite all the work and enthusiasm of the research team, it continues and has been accompanied by great news at the end of it: an extraordinary drawing by our great artist Pepe…

26 April 2019

The Bolomor research team receives the honor of 2019 from UGT-País Valenciano

The research team of the Cova del Bolomor received yesterday, April 25, 2019, the honor of UGT-Valencian Country in collective category for the 30 years of excavation, dissemination and investigation of the Valencian deposit. The award of honor in individual category was given to Dr. Santiago Grisolía, one of the…

23 August 2018

The 30th fieldwork season in Bolomor Cave begins

The 30th fieldwork season in Bolomor Cave begins, with a duration of one month and in which more than 40 researchers, including doctors, graduates and students, from different universities and national and international research centers will participate. The excavations at the site have been systematically developed since 1989 as part…

18 June 2018

Excursión Post-Congreso IBERFAULT2018

El pasado 15 de junio tuvo lugar una visita a la Cova del Bolomor. Formaba parte de la excursión post-congreso de IBERFAUL2018. Los investigadores, geólogos, estuvieron muy interesados en conocer el yacimiento. Los responsables de la visita fueron Josep Fernández y Policarp Garay

13 June 2018

IBERFAULT-2018 EXCURSIÓN POST-CONGRESO (AEQUA)

IBERFAULT-2018 EXCURSIÓN POST-CONGRESO (AEQUA) GEOLOGÍA DE LOS TERREMOTOS DE ESTUBENY (1748 AD) Y TAVERNES DE LA VALLDIGNA (1368 AD): EFECTOS GEOLÓGICOS Y SU RELACIÓN CON EL FRENTE DE DEFORMACIÓN BÉTICO. Earthquake Geology of the Estubeny (AD 1748) AND Tavernes de la Valldigna (AD 1396) seismic events: Geological effects and its…

06 June 2018

El equipo investigador de Bolomor presenta en el UISPP de París los resultados de dos nuevos estudios

El equipo investigador de la Cova de Bolomor participa en el XVIII congreso internacional UISPP, que se celebra este año entre el 4 y el 9 de junio en París https://uispp2018.sciencesconf.org/ En esta edición el equipo presenta trabajos en dos sesiones diferentes. Por una parte se presenta el trabajo "Middle…

05 June 2018

Josep Fernández Peris, director del yacimiento de la Cova del Bolomor, nombrado hijo adoptivo de Tavernes de la Valldigna

Josep Fernández Peris, director del yacimiento de la Cova del Bolomor, ha sido nombrado hijo adoptivo de Tavernes de la Valldigna en pleno extraordinarioy por unanimidad de todos los grupos políticos. Este acto ha supuesto un reconocimiento a la labor de investigación y difusión del yacimiento durante más de 30…

02 May 2018

Presentación del libro Estudio etnoarqueológico: cadenas operativas de caza y procesado animal en los grupos de cazadores-recolectores

El día 4 de Mayo de 2018 a las 13 horas en la sala de juntas de la Facultad de Geografía e Historia de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, presentación del libro Estudio etnoarqueológico: cadenas operativas de caza y procesado animal en los grupos de cazadores-recolectores de Santiago David Domínguez-Solera.…

07 February 2018

Discovered in Tuscany (Italy) wooden tools made with fire by Neanderthals 171,000 years ago

Archaeologists has found evidence in Tuscany (Italy) that Neanderthals used fire to make wood tools 171,000 years ago. http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/01/30/1716068115

30 January 2018

The Arqueomania TV program of La2 takes us this Saturday, February 3 to Bolomor

On Saturday, February 3, at 13:30, Manuel Pimentel and his Arqueomania team visit Bolomor Cave, a very important place for the study of the Neanderthal populations ways of life, to talk about the importance of fire in the camps of the human groups that populated Europe between 400,000 and 100,000…

28 January 2018

Discovered in Israel the jaw of older Homo sapiens outside of Africa

A jaw attributed to Homo sapiens found in Misliya (Israel), dated in about 160,000 years, the oldest remain of our species outside the African continent. http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/01/ancient-jawbone-suggests-our-species-left-africa-40000-years-earlier-expected

23 January 2018

New paleoclimate data supports early, multiple dispersals of modern humans from Africa

150,000-year palaeoclimate record from northern Ethiopia supports early, multiple dispersals of modern humans from Africa https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-19601-w

06 October 2017

The Provincial Council of Valencia grants the name of “Innocenci Sarrión” to the collection of quaternary fauna of the Museum of Prehistory

Xavier Rius, deputy of the Department of Culture of the Provincial Council of Valencia, grants the name "Innocenci Sarrión", to the quaternary fauna collection of the laboratory of Quaternary Fauna of the Museum of Prehistory of Valencia and Prehistoric Research Service. This collection was created by the own Innocenci Sarrión…

25 September 2017

Resultados de la campaña de excavación 2017 en la Cova del Bolomor (Tavernes de la Valldigna, Valencia)

Last weekend ended the XXIX excavation fieldworks in Cova del Bolomor that is held in Tavernes de la Valldigna, financed by the Department of Culture of the Diputació de València, through the Museum of Prehistory and with the corresponding permission of the Department of Education, Culture and Sports of the…

22 September 2017

Cova del Bolomor inaugurates the space #visitcomarques of the Tourist Board of the Diputación de Valencia

During the next two weeks the Cova del Bolomor will be present in the exhibition space #visitcomarques of the Tourist Board of the Diputación de Valencia, located next to the clock building of the port. A suitable place to make known our territory to the tourists who visit Valencia.

21 August 2017

The 29th fieldwork season in Bolomor Cave begins

The 29th fieldwork season in Bolomor Cave begins, with a duration of one month and in which more than 40 researchers, including doctors, graduates and students, from different universities and national and international research centers will participate. The excavations at the site have been systematically developed since 1989 as part…

20 August 2017

remains of a second Neanderthal in the Cova de les Teixoneres de Moià (Barcelona)

Remains of a second Neanderthal in the Cova de les Teixoneres de Moià (Barcelona) http://www.regio7.cat/cultures/2017/08/19/troben-restes-dun-segon-neandertal/429773.html

07 July 2017

Discovery of a Neanderthal tooth in Vanguard Cave (Gibraltar)

Discovery of a Neanderthal tooth belonging to a child between 4 and 5 years with a chronology of 50.000 years BP http://www.gibmuseum.gi/node/194

05 March 2017

Ancient skulls may belong to elusive humans called Denisovans

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/ancient-skulls-may-belong-elusive-humans-called-denisovans?utm_source=newsfromscience&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=deniskullvans-11459

27 January 2017

Carnivorous mammals and birds of prey appear to be primarily responsible for the presence of birds in Grotte des Barasses II

A recent study of the bird remains from the French site of Grotte des Barasses II suggests that small carnivorous mammals and nocturnal birds of prey would be the main accumulating agents of these small birds in the site. This research has been based mainly on the taphonomic analysis of…

05 November 2016

PhD presented by Laura Hortelano

On November 4, was presented the PhD "Ánalisis funcional de utillaje sobre caliza del nivel XII (MIS 6) de la Cova del Bolomor" by Laura Hortelano, That result in an excellent grade. The work has been directed by Valentín Villaverde, Paula Jardón and Josep Fernández.

30 October 2016

Discontinuity between the late Early Pleistocene and Middle Pleistocene populations

Recent study suggests a possible demographic discontinuity in Europe between late early Pleistocene and Middle Pleistocene. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379116304504

27 October 2016

Upper Palaeolithic human groups hunted lions to use their skins

The study of a set of nine phalanxes of cave lion (Panthera spelaea) with cut marks, found at the site of La Garma (Omoño, Cantabria), shows that human groups in the Upper Paleolithic hunted lions to use their skins. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0163591

21 October 2016

Recent study reveals up to 25 occupational phases between levels I and XII of Bolomor Cave sedimentary deposit

Recent study in Bolomor Cave has allowed to differentiate up to 25 archaeostratigraphic units or occupational phases, between levels I and XII of the sedimentary deposit of the site. These units have been identified from three-dimensional reconstruction and analysis of archaeological levels and the delimitation of the not inhabited phases,…

07 October 2016

Recent study reveals new findings on the formation of geological TD6 level of Gran Dolina (Atapuerca)

Recent study reveals new findings on the formation of geological TD6 level of Gran Dolina (Atapuerca) http://www.nature.com/articles/srep34799

29 September 2016

Resultados de la campaña de excavación 2016 en la Cova del Bolomor (Tavernes de la Valldigna, Valencia)

La 28ena campaña de excavación en la Cova del Bolomor ha concluido con el descubrimiento de cuatro fósiles humanos, y el primer bifaz documentado en toda su secuencia estratigráfica Los trabajos de campo en la Cova del Bolomor se han prolongado este año durante dos meses, ( del 1 de…

01 August 2016

The 28th excavation season at Bolomor Cave starts today

The 28th excavation season at Bolomor Cave starts today with a length of two months and more than 70 people involved, including researchers, graduates and students from several national and international universities and research centers. Fieldworks at Bolomor Cave are being systematically developed since 1989 as part of the…

31 July 2016

Fires at Neumark-Nord 2 (Germany) (OIS5e)

Fires at Neumark-Nord 2, Germany: An analysis of fire proxies from a Last Interglacial Middle Palaeolithic basin site http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00934690.2016.1208518

22 July 2016

New Middle Pleistocene Human parietal from Cueva del Fantasma (Atapuerca)

New Middle Pleistocene Human parietal from Cueva del Fantasma (Atapuerca) http://www.museoevolucionhumana.com/es/noticias-cientificas/descubierto-un-parietal-humano-del-pleistoceno-medio-en-la-cueva-del-fantasma-de-la-sierra-de-atapuerca

13 July 2016

Footprints reveal direct evidence of group behavior and locomotion in Homo erectus

Footprints reveal direct evidence of group behavior and locomotion in Homo erectus http://www.nature.com/articles/srep28766

09 July 2016

Direct radiocarbon dating and genetic analyses on the purported Neanderthal mandible from the Monti Lessini (Italy)

Direct radiocarbon dating and genetic analyses on the purported Neanderthal mandible from the Monti Lessini (Italy) http://www.nature.com/articles/srep29144

09 July 2016

Experimental insights into the cognitive significance of early stone tools

Experimental insights into the cognitive significance of early stone tools http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0158803

06 July 2016

Neandertal cannibalism and Neandertal bones used as tools in Northern Europe

Neandertal cannibalism and Neandertal bones used as tools in Northern Europe http://www.nature.com/articles/srep29005

25 June 2016

Ruth Blasco, wild carnivores are an important key for interpret the past

Ruth Blasco, Bolomor Cave research team and CENIEH's zooarchaeologist a taphonomist, leads a new experimental line with wild animals in the Catalan Pyrenees, which aim is simulate scenarios to model and characterize the actions of large and small carnivores, and extrapolate results obtained to European Pleistocene archaeological sites. http://www.cenieh.es/es/sala-de-prensa/noticias/actualidad/los-carnivoros-salvajes-son-una-pieza-clave-para-interpretar-el-p

18 June 2016

A night in a Neanderthal camp site

During the months of July and August visits to Bolomor Cave will be complemented with a night activity, which recreates a Neanderthal camp site as it was 235,000 years ago. This activity will combine ornamental elements, archaeological replicas, sound, image and theatrical production to tell the story of a…

17 June 2016

Teixoneres Cave could have been one of the last Neanderthal refuges in the Iberian Peninsula

Teixoneres Cave could have been one of the last Neanderthal refuges in the Iberian Peninsula http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=10326296&fileId=S0033822215000193

14 June 2016

New data about Homo naledi chronology

The evolutionary relationships and age of Homo naledi: An assessment using dated Bayesian phylogenetic methods http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248416300100

10 June 2016

Estrenamos página web

Cova del Bolomor estrena su nueva página web. En ella puedes consultar los contenidos con los que ya contaba su antecesora, pero actualizados con las últimas novedades. Además hemos incluido nuevas secciones y funcionalidades. Esperamos que os guste.

09 June 2016

Homo floresiensis

Nuevos datos sobre la antigüedad y contexto de los fósiles de homínidos más antiguos conocidos de Flores http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v534/n7606/full/nature17663.html

02 June 2016

Nuevos datos sobre la domesticación del perro

Los perros pudieron ser domesticados más de una vez http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/06/dogs-may-have-been-domesticated-more-once

26 May 2016

Pleistocene footprints show intensive use of lake margin habitats by Homo erectus groups

Pleistocene footprints show intensive use of lake margin habitats by Homo erectus groups http://www.nature.com/articles/srep26374

25 May 2016

Early Neanderthal constructions deep in Bruniquel Cave in southwestern France

Early Neanderthal constructions deep in Bruniquel Cave in southwestern France http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v534/n7605/full/nature18291.html

24 May 2016

The mitogenome of a 35,000-year-old Homo sapiens from Europe supports a Palaeolithic back-migration to Africa

The mitogenome of a 35,000-year-old Homo sapiens from Europe supports a Palaeolithic back-migration to Africa http://www.nature.com/articles/srep25501

23 May 2016

Unpeeling the layers of language: Bonobos and chimpanzees engage in cooperative turn-taking sequences

Unpeeling the layers of language: Bonobos and chimpanzees engage in cooperative turn-taking sequences http://www.nature.com/articles/srep25887

20 May 2016

The Lithic Assemblages of Xiaochangliang, Nihewan Basin: Implications for Early Pleistocene Hominin Behaviour in North China

The Lithic Assemblages of Xiaochangliang, Nihewan Basin: Implications for Early Pleistocene Hominin Behaviour in North China http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0155793

19 May 2016

Nutcracker Man

Nutcracker Man https://nutcrackerman.com/2016/05/19/dmanisi-challenging-our-understanding-of-early-human-expansion/

13 May 2016

Homo naledi

The impact of a date for understanding the importance of Homo naledi http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0035919X.2016.1178186?journalCode=ttrs20

06 May 2016

Six new fossil species form ‘snapshot’ of primates stressed by ancient climate change

Six new fossil species form 'snapshot' of primates stressed by ancient climate change http://science.sciencemag.org/content/352/6286/673

21 September 2013

Actos aniversario de las excavaciones en Cova del Bolomor (1989-2013)

03 March 2013

Publicación de los restos fósiles de neandertales de l’Esquilleu (Liebana, Cantabria)

http://lacienciadivulgativa.blogspot.com/2012/03/arqueologia-hallan-restos-oseos.html http://paleorama.wordpress.com/2012/03/05/hallados-restos-oseos-neandertales-en-la-cueva-de-l?esquilleu/oseos.htmlhttp://paleorama.wordpress.com/2012/03/05/hallados-restos-oseos-neandertales-en-la-cueva-de-l?esquilleu/

27 March 2012

Evidencias micromorfológicas sobre el fuego hace 1 millón de añosen Sudáfrica

http//www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/03/27/1117620109.full.pdf+html?with-des=yes

08 March 2012

Nueva hipótesis sobre los bifaces

http://prehistorialdia.blogspot.com/2012/03/nueva-hipotesis-plantea-que-los-bifaces.html

05 March 2012

La utilización de adhesivos naturales en el enmangue de herramientas por neandertales

http://prehistorialdia.blogspot.com/2012/03/nuevas-evidencias-de-la-utilizacion-de.html

01 March 2012

Necrológica. Museu Valencià d’Història Natural

El Museu Valencia d'Historia Natural desaparece, una institución dedicada a la pedagogia y la investigación de las Ciencias de la Tierra sucumbe bajo la etiqueta que se denomina crisis. Un presupuesto de unos pocos miles de euros es la barrera entre el ser o no ser de un espacio educativo…

28 February 2012

Nuevo libro por T. Wynn y Frederick L. Coolidge, la Universidad de Oxford: “How To Think Like a Neandertal”

http://www.oupcanada.com/catalog/9780199742820.html

28 February 2012

Pigmentos en el yacimiento de Pleistoceno medio de Maastricht-Belvedere en los Paises Bajos

http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/december-2011/article/neanderthals-used-red-ochre-pigment-250-000-years-ago

27 February 2012

C. Michael Barton y J. Riel-Salvatore. “Agents of Change: Modelling Biocultural Evolution in Upper Pleistocene Wester Eurasia”. La influencia de los cambios culturales en la desaparición de los neandertales

http://www.heritagedaily.com/2012/02/research-neanderthal-demise-due-to-many-influences-including-cultural-changes/

25 February 2012

Crisis neandertal previa a su extinción

Problemática sobre la extinción de los neandertales en Europa que postula un agotamiento de la especie alrededor de los 50 ky. Es decir, que los neandertales europeos estuvieron a punto de la extinción antes de la llegada de los humanos modernos y que por tanto, su extinción no estaria vinculada…

12 February 2012

Bolomor se incluye en el glosario “Human history” (about.com) del New York Times como yacimiento arqueológico importante para la historia del hombre

http://archaeology.about.com/od/glossary/Archaeology_Dictionary_Index.htm http://archaeology.about.com/od/bterms/qt/Bolomor-Cave-Spain.htm

08 February 2012

Hallazgo de pinturas rupestres atribuidas a neandertales

http://www.correodelorinoco.gob.ve/comunicacion-cultura/cientificos-encontraron-pinturas-rupestres-42-mil-anos-antiguedad http://www.abc.es/fotos-arte/20120207/pinturas-rupestres-cueva-nerja-1502397079301.html

04 February 2012

Evolución e involucionismo

http://www.lasprovincias.es/v/20120204/safor/neandertal-extinguio-evoluciono-culturalmente-20120204.html

30 January 2012

El menú de los homínidos según la dieta en Bolomor

http://www.agenciasinc.es/Noticias/Los-hominidos-de-Atapuerca-y-Bolomor-tenian-una-dieta-variada

01 January 2012

De Carol para el equipo y amigos de Bolomor

15 December 2011

Tesis doctoral

Lectura a cargo de Ruth Blasco en la Universitat Roviri i Virgili (Tarragona). Titulo: " La amplitud de la dieta cárnica en el Pleistoceno medio peninsular: una aproximación a partir de la Cova del Bolomor (Tavernes de la Valldigna, Valencia) y del subnivel TD10-1 de Gran Dolina (Sierra de Atapuerca,…

10 December 2011

Hallazgo arqueológico

Descubren lecho vegetal de 77.000 años en Sudáfrica. http://www.levante-emv.com/sociedad/2011/12/10/descubren-colchones-77000-anos-antiguedad-repelente-insectos/863692.html http://www.levante-emv.com/sociedad/2011/12/10/descubren-colchones-77000-anos-antiguedad-repelente-insectos/863692.html

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