The analysis work on the As Gándaras de Budiño website, in O Porriño, an important and oldest in Galicia with human presence, continues to bear fruit.
The crew of researchers led by archaeologists Eduardo Méndez-Quintas and Manuel Santonja, from the University of Vigo and the National Center for Research on Human Evolution (CENIEH), have resumed work on the positioning.
So far, 1,623 lithic instruments have been recovered, made with stones, amongst that are considerable examples of bifaces, which had been used to chop, scrape and perforate different supplies. In addition to different attribute items of the Acheulean sort, from the Lower Paleolithic.
The mayor of O Porriño, Alejandro Lorenzo, accompanied by the councilor Marcos Martínez, has visited the positioning to inquire concerning the improvement of the works and has highlighted the “cultural and patrimonial worth that these have for O Porriño”.
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This is the primary intervention because it was decided that the oldest ranges date again greater than 310,000 years, which confirmed that the primary inhabitants of Galicia lived in O Porriño.
The works, which have the monetary assist of the O Porriño City Council, consisted within the final marketing campaign of an excavation of an space of 30 sq. meters complementary to the archaeological survey part of 2018, which offered beneficial info on the formation circumstances of the geological deposits and, above all, the dense accumulations of lithic instruments discovered within the place.
At that point, it was erroneously decided that the positioning was round 26,000 years outdated, one thing that led to the conclusion that within the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula there was an anachronistic and late Paleolithic in comparison with what was occurring in the remainder of southwestern Europe and consolidated the mistaken concept of the secular backwardness of Galicia.
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