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The restoration of The Annunciation by Fra Angelico in the Prado Museum

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The main objective of the restoration of The Annunciation by Fra Angelico, carried out by Almudena Sánchez in the Prado Museum Restoration Workshop that has the Iberdrola Spain Foundation as a Protector member, has been the recovery of the rich and brilliant color and the intense light that surrounds the scene, characteristic elements of this painting and of all the work of this great artist, which over time had been veiled under layers of dirt and pollution accumulated on the surface.

The double genetic legacy of the last hunter-gatherers of the Peninsula

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The genetic legacy of the last European hunter-gatherers who lived in the Iberian Peninsula is much more diverse than previously believed, according to an international study published in the journal Current Biology and led by researcher Vanessa Villalba from the Max Planck Institute (Germany) and the University of Zaragoza.

The City Council of Jávea wants to recover the Castell de la Granadella

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The Department of Culture of the City Council of Jávea has commented that it is studying to recover the Castell de la Granadella, an 18th century fortress that was declared a Site of Cultural Interest (BIC) in 1996.The Castell de la Granadella was part of the defensive system of the Valencian coasts, and it is currently the only structure for defensive use owned by the public that is conserved on the coast of Jávea.

How the limbs of vertebrates evolved from the fins of fish

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A research team led by the researcher from the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE) Borja Esteve Altava, in collaboration with researchers from the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) of London, Harvard University, the University of Auckland, the Institute of Technology of New York and Howard University in Washington DC, has recomposed the anatomy of the fins and limbs of extinct fossil animals by using a new mathematical analysis that uses networks to model animal anatomy.

They relate human self-domestication and its brain evolution

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Emiliano Bruner, paleoneurologist at the National Center for Research on Human Evolution (CENIEH) has just published an opinion article on self-domestication and visuospatial cognition in the human race, in which he considers whether both characteristics may have had reciprocal influences or mechanisms shared.

55 students participate in the education and coexistence day in the Sierra de Atapuerca 2019

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The Sierra de Atapuerca has been the scene this morning of a day of coexistence between students of the IES López de Mendoza and students of the Puentesaúco Education Center, an activity organized by the Fundación Atapuerca, Fundación Aspanias Burgos, IES Cardenal López de Mendoza, the Fundación Caja de Burgos and Obra Social “la Caixa”, whose objective is to promote social awareness towards the group of people with intellectual disabilities in conjunction with the interest and knowledge of natural and cultural heritage.

Scientific popularizer Eduard Punset dies

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"Today, May 22, Eduard Punset has died in Barcelona after a long illness," the family of the popular Spanish science communicator, who was diagnosed with lung cancer, has communicated through social networks In 2007, the figure of Punset became popular for being the presenter and director of the scientific dissemination program 'Redes' on Spanish Television.

Mercantilism, origin, characteristics and mercantilist doctrine

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The eighteenth century is a key century for the evolution of the capitalist system since in it the passage of Commercial capitalism takes place (that is, of capitalism in which the main source of high profits is commercial activity, complemented by the first stage of financial expansion) to Industrial Capitalism (originated in the Industrial Revolution, notorious since 1770) and which is accompanied by a new financial expansion since the second half of the 19th century.

CENIEH participates in the excavation of the Indian site of Sendrayanpalayam

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The National Center for Research on Human Evolution (CENIEH) is part of an international project, funded by the PALARQ Foundation and The Leakey Foundation, whose objective is to study the chronology of the end of the Acheulean and the characteristics of the transition process to the Middle Paleolithic in India.

They discover 17 amphoras from the 3rd century BC. in the Bay of Cannes

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A campaign of underwater archaeological excavations has announced the discovery of 17 amphoras from the 3rd century BC. near the Lérins Islands, in the Bay of Cannes, at a depth of 20 meters According to Anne Joncheray, archaeologist and director of the Saint-Raphaël Museum of Archeology, the 2,300-year-old amphoras are in a very good state of preservation and probably they were used to transport locally produced wine to Greek trading posts in the Mediterranean.

The excavation campaign begins in the deposits of the Sierra de Atapuerca

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On Monday, June 17, an advance team of excavators from the Atapuerca Research Team began preparing the infrastructures in the deposits of the Sierra de Atapuerca. The works directed by Juan Luis Arsuaga, José María Bermúdez de Castro and Eudald Carbonell, will have the collaboration, during this month of June, of some 80 people who will excavate at the Sima del Elefante, Galería, Gran Dolina, Cueva Fantasma, ─all of them located in the Railroad Trench─ and in the Cueva del Mirador.

The restoration of the Macha flag, raised by Manuel Belgrano in 1813, concludes

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Restoration experts from Argentina and Bolivia are about to complete the restoration of the Macha flag, a historical symbol found in the Casa de la Libertad, in the city of Sucre (Capital of the Plurinational State of Bolivia). The work will be delivered on August 22. The restoration is possible, according to a note from the Argentine Embassy in Bolivia, thanks to the Argentine South-South cooperation fund.

The Noailles burin, the predecessor of the sewing needle

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A team of researchers led by the Area of Prehistory of the University of the Basque Country has just published, in the Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, an article dedicated to the functionality of one of the most characteristic and enigmatic tools of the Gravettian period, the so-called 'burin of Noailles'.

Biography of Aristophanes, the greatest exponent of the comic genre of Greece

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Aristophanes (Athens, 444 BC), was a Greek comediographer and the greatest exponent of the comic genre in classical literature. Aristophanes' comedies His comedies take place on a multiple stage and in the midst of an overflowing fantasy. The relatively serious plots of his works are seasoned with all the characteristic effects of humor of that time: obscenities, exaggerated fuss, stumbling and circus pirouettes.

2,200-year-old tomb discovered in Taranto

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After many centuries in silence, important archaeological finds begin to emerge in the Taranto area. The latest: a 2,200-year-old tomb (2nd century BC) in the city of Apulia. The tomb is actually a chamber containing seven burials and was discovered by the Superintendency of Archeology, Fine Arts and Landscape when conducting a stratigraphic study in the area, requested by an energy company to create an underground network there.

Neanderthals used resin to glue their stone tools

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Archaeologists working in two Italian caves have discovered some of the earliest known examples of Neanderthals using an adhesive on their stone tools, a major technological advance called "hafting." The new study, conducted by Paola Villa of the University of Colorado Boulder, shows that Neanderthals who lived in Europe between 55 to 40,000 years ago traveled far from their caves to collect resin from pine trees and then use it to glue stone tools to handles made of wood or bone.

Dinosaurs: Brachyceratops, Montana's short-horned face

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Brachyceratops fileTranslation: «short-horned face» Description: herbivore, quadruped Order: Ornithischia Suborder: MarginocephaliaInfraororder: CeratopsiaMicroorder: NeoceratopsiaFamily: CeratopsidaeHeight: 1.55 metersLength: 1.8 meters (known as Upper Seratopsian specimens) young specimens discovered in Montana, where its (short) horns and frills were half developed, although since the complete skeleton was not found, it was not possible to make comparisons of its frill with those of other ceratopsids.

Hundreds of 6,000-year-old fossil footprints found in Miramar, Argentina

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The Municipal Museum of Natural Sciences of the Buenos Aires town of Miramar, announced the peculiar discovery of hundreds of traces after the Ice Age, with an age of approximately six thousand years before the present, although the discovery was made long ago, specialists of the Municipal Museum Punta Hermengo de Miramar, located on the Atlantic coast about 450 kilometers from Buenos Aires, unveiled a new iconic site (with ancient tracks or marks), where traces of different prehistoric animals that inhabited the region have been observed pampeana, after the marine influx product of the end of the ice age and the global increase in temperature.

A new species of lizard appears in the stomach of a new species of microraptor

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A team of paleontologists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences has discovered a new specimen of the flying dromaeosaurid, which they have named Microraptor zhaoianus. The most curious thing is that it preserves the remains of an almost complete lizard in its stomach.The lizard is unlike any other known from the Cretaceous and represents a new species, which has been named Indrasaurus wangi in honor of Professor Wang Yuan, a researcher at the Institute of Paleontology and Vertebrate Paleoanthropology and director of the Paleozoological Museum of China.

The Provincial Council of Palencia allocates € 35,000 to archaeological projects

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In a statement, the Palencia Provincial Council announced that it will allocate 35,000 euros to archaeological projects in the province, which will be allocated to those sites in which interventions have been carried out by the same team in more than five campaigns, or that have been excavated in the last three campaigns.