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Archaeologist Roberto Risch, professor in the Department of Prehistory, and science historian Marco Armiero, ICREA researcher at the Institut d’Història de la Ciència (IHC), receive an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) in the 2024 call for proposals.

A study with the involvement of the UAB, IPHES-CERCA and URV, published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, provides for the first time direct fossil evidence of frugivory in South American mastodons and shows the lasting ecological impact of their extinction.

On Friday 6 June the UAB will play host to the closing event of the project Investiga.edu, an educational proposal which for four years made it possible to bring science and research into archaeology, palaeontology and geology closer to primary and secondary schools located in rural and mountaineous areas, particularly in the Pyrenees and pre-Pyrenees regions. The event will take place from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Periodicals Room of the Humanities Library.

National Geographic magazine has dedicated the main article of its May issue to the research and discoveries made by the research team of the Social Archaeology of the Mediterranean (ASOME) group at the UAB at the sites of La Almoloya and La Bastida, which are representative of the El Argar society that inhabited the southeastern Iberian Peninsula 4,000 years ago. The publication has also devoted its editorial and cover to the topic, featuring an illustration of the Princess of La Almoloya.

Un equip de recerca, liderat per la UAH i la UAB ha identificat les primeres evidències directes de cistelleria entre societats de caçadors-recol·lectors i primers agricultors del sud d'Europa, fa entre 9.500 i 6.200 anys, a la Cueva de los Murciélagos d’Albuñol (Granada). Aquest és un dels enclavaments arqueològics més emblemàtics de la Prehistòria a la península Ibèrica per la singular conservació de materials orgànics que s’hi han trobat. L'estudi s'ha publicat a la revista Science Advances.