Juan Luis Arsuaga

  We went to a conference held in Alcoy on human evolution, and we really enjoyed it. After the talk we went approached professor Arsuaga to tell him about our group participating in Euroscola contest and incidentally we took a photo with him holding our team’s with T-shirt to give us his support. 

Professor Arsuaga though we had done a very good job and he wished we would win.

- Some biographical details :

  - Juan Luis Arsuaga Ferreras is a Spanish paleoanthropologist. He is doctor in Biological Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid and Professor of Paleontology at the Faculty of Geological Sciences at the same university. Since July 2013 he is scientific director of the Museum of Human Evolution in Burgos. Arsuaga has written many articles in the press, such as in the newspaper El país an article would be "The Others", he has also published in Science magazine.

-Professor Arsuaga has been received several awards:

 -(1997) Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research:

      · This award is granted to those whose discovery represent a significant contribution to the progress of humanity in the fields of mathematics, physics, etc.

 -(1997) Castilla y León Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities:

      · This prize is awarded to the work of those individuals, teams and institutions they have contributed to the exaltation of the values of the Community of Castile and Leon.

 -(2010) Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Burgos:

      · This award is received people who have been distinguished for their decisive contribution in scientific, cultural, artistic and technical field.

 -(2008) Commission on Human Paleontology and Paleoecology of the INQUA (International Union for Quaternary Research) Premio "Antonio of Sancha":

      · This prize is awarded to the first author of the best papers presented for publication in the journal AIQUA.

 -(2014) UEMC Award for Public Character of Castilla y León that best communicates:

      · This award is received to manifest the recognition of journalists of Castile and León the person noted for its communicative activity and the relationship he had with the various media pending the year.

THE OLDEST EUROPEAN

The conference we attended at the Polytechnic University of Valencia so deeply impacted on us that one of the members in our group, took advantage of our Spring holidays to visit Burgos searching for what is supposed to be the oldest European.

The MEH (Museo de la Evolución Humana) houses the remains of the different hominins found in Atapuerca sites. Such as the Homo Heidelbergensis 

, Homo Antecessor 

 and Homo Sapiens, as well thousands of bones of different prehistoric animals ranging from bears to mustelids.

When visiting the sites, an archeology explains what has been found in each place, she also explains how they proceed during the excavation and how they divide the space in square metres to know where each bone was found, in the photo it can easily be seen what type of remains they found in each section.

So while working to know more about Europe we found that THE OLDEST EUROPEAN can be found in Spain.