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DICYT / New geological, paleontological and archaeological campaign in Eritrea

Posted by: Semere Asmelash

Date: Tuesday, 16 January 2018

Excavation in Eritrea.  Photo: IPHES.

Excavation in Eritrea. Photo: IPHES.

 Spain , Monday, January 15, 2018 at 11:3    Science Spain

New geological, paleontological and archaeological campaign in Eritrea

The objective is to improve the geological cartography of the Engel Ela-Ramud basin and to achieve an advance in the numerical dating of several archaeological and paleontological sites
IPHES / DICYT  Between January 10 and February 3, an Eritrean-Spanish team led by Bienvenido Martínez-Navarro, ICREA research professor (Catalan Institute of Research and Advanced Studies); Eudald Carbonell, professor of Prehistory at the Rovira i Virgili University (URV) and Tsegai Medin, Eritrean researcher and postdoctoral fellow of the Atapuerca Foundation, all of them attached to the IPHES (Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social), will carry out a campaign of geological, paleontological and archaeological field in the Ela-Ramud Engel basin in Eritrea.

Geologists-geochronologists Oriol Oms, professor at the Autonomous University of Bacelona, ​​and Davinia Moreno, researcher at the National Research Center on Human Evolution (CENIEH), located in Burgos, together with other specialists in archeology, will also participate in this campaign. attached to the National Museum of Eritrea, in Asmara.
 
The objectives that are pursued are related to an improvement in the geological cartography of the basin and an advance in the numeric dating of several archaeological and paleontological sites located and excavated in previous campaigns, such as Ado Quauleh, Bolali Gorge and Gameré. Likewise, the field will continue to be surveyed in the sectors of Bolali, Sasaktoli and Ramud, to improve knowledge of the fossil and paleoanthropological record of the basin.

In this campaign, in addition, an important collaboration will be carried out with the local Afar population of Engel Ela. It will involve two cooperators, the hydrogeologist Pedro Verzier, who will conduct a study for the location of water wells, and José Manuel Vílchez, specialist in water purification, who will test the use of solar cookers to boil the water and various tanks with filters that eliminate pathogens to improve the quality of the same. This will help prevent diseases such as gastroenteritis or dysentery, which especially affect children.

All these works are financed by the Palarq Foundation through the project "Cradle of humanity: Eritrea-Rift Valley", managed by the Atapuerca Foundation.




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