Member of the Social Council of the University of Barcelona, appointed by the Parliament of Catalonia
A group of Spanish researchers has applied techniques that allow Paleolithic archaeological findings to be dated with an accuracy of only decades: “Here we report high-resolution time differences between six Middle Palaeolithic hearths from El Salt Unit X (Spain) obtained through archaeomagnetic and archaeostratigraphic analyses. The set of hearths covers at least around 200–240 years with 99% probability, having decade- and century-long intervals between the different hearths. Our results provide a quantitative estimate of the time framework for the human occupation events included in the studied sequence. This is a step forward in Palaeolithic archaeology, a discipline in which human behaviour is usually approached from a temporal scale typical of geological processes, whereas significant change may happen at the smaller scales of human generations. Here we reach a timescale close to a human lifespan.” https://lnkd.in/e_9khUJ6 #OnScienceAndSociety
