The Archaeological Museum of Alicanterecovers with the publication "Cova d'En Pardo.Archaeology in Memory" the research work carried out in 1965 by the archaeologists Miquel Tarradell, Vicente Pascual and Enrique Llobregat in this cavity of Plans. The volume is co-published by the Diputación de Alicante and Alcoy City Council..
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MARQ's curator of Prehistory and coordinator of the book Jorge Soler presented last Friday 21 September 2012 in the Mario Silvestre Cultural Centre of Alcoy this specimen, accompanied by the Professor of Prehistory at the University of Alicante Mauro Hernándezby the local councillor in charge of cultural heritage PacoBlayby the director of the Alicante museum José Alberto Cortésas well as by the technical director of the MARQ Manuel Olcina.
The volume, which gives the results of the excavations carried out in 1965, also includes a catalogue of the materials from this site housed in the Museum of Alcoyas well as the memory of the 14 study campaigns carried out by MARQ in the cavity. between 1993 and 2007 and which allowed the project initiated by Tarradell, Pascual and Llobregat to continue.
Through 318 pagesthe publication includes 15 chapters written by 13 specialistsThe excavations were carried out by the MARQ, the Museum of Prehistory of Valencia, the Municipal Archaeological Museum of Alcoy, the City Council of Cocentaina and the Universities of Alicante and Valencia, some of whom participated in the second cycle of excavations carried out.
More than a hundred students from different Spanish and European universities have collaborated in recent years in the research work carried out in the Cova d'En PardoA cave that was a refuge for Palaeolithic hunters, a cattle pen in the Neolithic period, a necropolis of multiple burials in the Eneolithic period and a corral in the 16th century.
The book specifies the sediment sequences which cover the different archaeological levels of the Cova d'En Pardo, publishes the 27 radiocarbon dates The results of the studies carried out at the US laboratory in Veta, Florida, both on human and faunal bone sections and on sediments, present the latest material closing the caveand includes, as a new feature, the framing of the site in the entire landscape and a habitatthat has been documented.
