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Cabezo Gordo and Sima de las Palomas

Torre-Pacheco, Mar Menor, Murcia

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Cabezo Gordo and Sima de las Palomas

Nature · Torre-Pacheco, Mar Menor, Murcia

The only hill in the district of Torre-Pacheco, of Triassic origin, home to the Sima de las Palomas, one of the most important Neanderthal sites on the Spanish Mediterranean arc, with finds dating from between 40,000 and 130,000 years ago.

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