In 2019, work to expand a school in Tudela, a town in the northern Spanish region of Navarra, led to the discovery of a medieval cemetery. Because construction was halted and archaeologists were called in, researchers were able to document more than 400 graves. The position of the bodies and the direction of the faces revealed that the site was one of the largest Muslim burial grounds found in Christian-ruled Spain, dating from the 11th to the 14th centuries.

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Durante décadas, Navarra ha sido un hueco en el mapa neandertal. El Pirineo occidental guarda numerosas evidencias arqueológicas del paso de esta especie, pero nunca se había identificado un solo hueso humano atribuido directamente a ella. Eso ha cambiado este lunes con la presentación de seis fósiles de la cueva de Abauntz, en Arraitz-Orkin (valle […]