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06/09/2019 | Noticias

CONICET researcher participates in the study of a 5,000-year-old underwater discovery found in Italy
Laura Caruso Fermé is an associate researcher of the ‘Patagonian Institute of Social and Human Sciences’ (IPCSH-CONICET) and the archeologist in charge of the study of all the artefacts and wood remains of the underwater site “La Marmotta,” which is located in the Museo Delle Civiltà in Rome. The scientist is an expert in archaeobotany,...

08/04/2019 | Noticias

From Catamarca to Egypt: Argentine archeologist was called to analyze an ancient Thebes tomb
Lucas Gheco, archeologist of the National Scientific and Technical Research Council, started his professional career in 2006 when he moved from his birthplace in the city of Santa Fe to Catamarca to obtain a degree in archeology in the National University of Catamarca (UNCa). In 2017, as a scholar, he obtained a PhD in Anthropological Sciences at...

15/03/2019 | Noticias

New evidence on the extinction of giant mammals in America
The moment when the definitive extinction of the great mammals of the Pleistocene (which started 2,6 MYR ago and ended about 12 MYR ago) and the role of human beings in their disappearance have been controversial subjects between the archeologists and paleontologists from the American continent. Carbon-14 dating on extinct great mammals’...

07/02/2019 | Noticias

Scientists find the skeleton of an Inca woman at the Pucará of Tilcara
At 2400 meters altitude, in the center of the Quebrada of Humahuaca, is the Pucará of Tilcara, a fort that holds the archeological structures of a pre-Hispanic people. It was here that Dr. Clarisa Otero, associate researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) at the Institute of Andean Ecoregions (INECOA,...