Iberian

Location of Campo de Hockey site in southern Iberian Peninsula. The red line above marks the estimated location of the coastline during the Neolithic. The yellow rectangle indicates the location of the first excavation (2007–2008) and the red rectangle indicates the second excavation (2018). Credit: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (2024). DOI: 10.1007/s12520-024-01939-0 The first Neolithic farmers and shepherds in…

Map with distribution of stone fortifications (in black) and maximum slope between settlements and farming valleys (in red) to the north of El Argar from 2200 to 1550 BCE. Credit: University of Barcelona A UAB study using a Big Data approach to analyze settlement dynamics reveals that communities of the central-eastern Iberian Peninsula existing 4,000 years ago deployed "escape economies," using enrockment and segmentation…

The fault system linking the European and African plates extends over a length of 300 kilometers / ICM-CSIC. Credit: ICM-CSIC A new study led by the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) in Barcelona and the Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA) has revealed the exact location of the boundary between the European and African tectonic plates, located in the Alboran Sea region. The work also evaluates its…