Javier Fernández-López de Pablo, researcher of the Catalan Institute of Human Palaeoecology and Social Evolution (IPHES), has been awarded a ERC Consolidator Grant to develop a 5-
In his PhD thesis, he used ancient animal bone finds to reconstruct human strategies for getting food more than 400,000 years ago
He has demonstrated that early humans were capable of abstract planning, using technology and social skills to get food
It is a schist slab showing seven semicircular motifs that, according to their shape and proportions, can be interpreted as huts
This engraving would be the first representation of a human social group recorded to date
Can be viewed on the YouTube channel of this research centre
The initiative has arisen to provide answers to the questions of the students and the public who are interested in the archaeological sites where this Institute is working.
Together with the European students that have defended their work other students from many different countries as Tanzania, Mexico, Ethiopia, Jordan, Indonesia, Philippines, Brazil and Cambodia have participated