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ARCHIVED - 3-d images of million-year-old fossils to go on display at Cartagena archaeological museum
The fossils were found at the Cueva Victoria site where it is claimed the first evidence of Man aevidence
The process of creating 3-d scanned images of 20 fossils found at the ancient palaeontological site of Cueva Victoria in Llano del Beal, in the municipality of Cartagena, has been completed by the municipal archaeology museum in the city in collaboration with staff from the UPCT university, and the results are now ready to go on display to members of the public.
Among the items scanned are fossilized teeth belonging to the African primate species Theropithecus oswaldi (similar to a baboon), which is believed to have died out around a million years ago, a human phalanx bone and others belonging to a seal, and the creation of the digitalized images makes it possible for visitors to the museum to see pieces which it is not normally possible to exhibit due to their fragility.
The caves of the Victoria complex were formed by a geological movement nearly 3.5 million years ago, and during the 2 million years which followed they gradually filled with accumulated silt, washed in by the rain. This in turn created a unique storehouse of fossils, and later, around 1.2 million years ago they were inhabited by a prehistoric species of hyena, a much larger and more powerful animal than its modern descendants, which weighed in at around 120 kilos and had astonishingly powerful jaws.
Other remains found by palaeontologists over the last 30 years include those of elephants, horses, dolphins and bird species which were not formerly thought to have lived in this area 1.2 million years ago, but it was the finding of human remains from the same period in the caves that sparked worldwide scientific excitement. Human bones from a million years ago are indescribably rare, and while some still doubt that those discovered in Cueva Victoria actually belong to our forefathers many believe they are evidence of the first hominids to cross the Strait of Gibraltar into Europe.
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