Hoard of 600-year-old treasures uncovered in vulture nests
In many vultures in Spain, a “extraordinary” stash of 600 -year -old treasures was discovered.
Archaeologists studying the nests of the bearded vultures in the Southern Spanish mountains revealed the works of some of them, including a Tatar spring, a slingy and fancy skin, some of them, dating back to approximately 1375.
The goods, which are believed to be from the Middle Ages, were used to build their homes by birds as well as more common nesting materials.
In the Southern Spanish mountains, the generation of the vultures with beard has been exhausted for 70 to 130 years. However, scientists have described these places as “natural museums”, stating that their nests were left well preserved due to the tendency of birds to build in protected areas such as rocky caves.
The study published in the journal EcologyHe found a “abundant and well -preserved” medieval items in his nest with 12 bearded.
Researchers who analyze the nests layer layer, 2.117 bone, 43 of the egg shell remains, 25 esparto grass, 86 of them tolen, 72 leather residues, 11 hair residues and 129 of 129 fabric residue revealed a total of 2.483 residues.
The products made of Esparto grass include shoes, ropes, baskets, horses and slingers. The team of archaeologists also found sandals made of grass and thin branches, a wooden spear, a fancy sheep skin and a piece of fabric.
According to the researchers, similar works discovered on the Iberian peninsula showed that people have been using plant fibers to make “a wide variety of” products since the epipaleolithic period about 12,000 years ago.
They said that these discoveries could help scientists understand human practices, technological development and changes in material culture.
The authors of the study, “Bearded vulture nest structures in the Western Mediterranean, thanks to the location of the Western Mediterranean, usually relatively fixed temperature and low -moisture conditions, such as caves and rock shelters, such as protected places, maintaining historical materials in good condition,” he acted as natural museums, “he wrote.
According to the Foundation of the Foundation of the Foundation of the Foundation of the Sakalli vultures, the 19th and 20th centuries after the “intense persecution” in Europe is the most threat of vulture. The authors of the research, currently only 309 of the couple on the continent, he said.
His findings may be important in helping academics to recover the species in Europe by helping academics understand the eating habits of their predecessors and the choice of nest.
“These basic historical data and nutritional habits and the selection of nest place, the habitat features and the type of nutrients to choose this type a few centuries ago,” he wrote, “he wrote.
“This information is extremely important for the recovery of the species at the European level, for example, in terms of the potential distribution of the species and the priority to the choice of appropriate release areas or the priority of habitat protection efforts.”
