Conference: "Awakening the Lady of the Mountains"

UAB researchers will participate in this conference, which will include the presentation of the results of the scientific research conducted on the archaeological site of Montanisell Cave (Coll de Nargó, Alt Urgell), dating back 5,500 years, and of the researchers' most outstanding discovery: a woman around 35 to 45 years old buried with extraordinary funerary objects, who they have named "The Lady of the Mountains".

The conference, organised by the Museum of Archaeology of Catalonia (MAC), will include the participation of Núria Armentano and Cristina Santos, researchers in Physical Anthropology at the UAB, who will speak of the first anthropological results and the palaeogenetic studies and future research possibilities. Also speaking will by researchers from the Géosciences Environnement Toulouse (GET), who conducted the stable isotope analysis of the archaeological site.

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