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Bearded Vulture Nests Preserve 700 Years of Artifacts
Researchers uncovered over 200 medieval human artifacts in ancient bearded vulture nests, revealing ecological and historical insights spanning nearly 700 years.
- Last month, a Spanish research team led by IREC found a 650-year-old sandal woven from twigs and grasses in a bearded vulture nest in southern Spain, published in the journal Ecology.
- Researchers rappelled down cliffs to excavate 12 Bearded Vulture nests in southern Spain, analyzing layers preserved by stable cave microclimates that acted as natural museums.
- The team recovered 2,483 preserved remains including 2,117 animal bones, 86 hooves, 43 eggshell fragments and 226 human-made objects recently.
- Conservationists say the findings could guide habitat restoration and species reintroduction given just 309 breeding pairs continent-wide and 180 to 249 individuals in the Mediterranean.
- Using radiocarbon dating, proteomic tests, and stratigraphic digs, researchers recently recovered more than 200 human artifacts offering insights into Mediterranean pastoral life in Castilla‑La‑Mancha and Andalusia.
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Indiana Jones reborn as bearded vulture
Centuries of human history have been frozen in time inside the towering nests of bearded vultures, Europe’s most endangered raptors, and have revealed a surprising archive of ancient artefacts carried aloft by the birds themselves. A Spanish research team who were excavating 12 ancient eyries in southern Spain’s rugged cliffs uncovered 2,483 preserved remains in a study published recently in the… Source
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