Aranzadi Visits Irikaitz

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Aranzadi Society of Sciences visits Palaeolithic site of Irikaitz

Irikaitz is a lower Palaeolithic site full of information about the prehistoric man who used to live there 150,000 years ago. Irikaitz is the most ancient site of the Basque Country alongside Leize-Txiki in Arrasate.

Scientists of the Society of Sciences Aranzadi are working at the Irikaitz site, in the Basque town of Zestoa, a lower Palaeolithic site full of information about the prehistoric man who used to live there over 150,000 years ago.

Palaeontologists discovered that prehistoric men ate hazelnuts and lived in a warmer weather than the current.

Irikaitz is the most ancient site of the Basque Country alongside Leize-Txiki from Arrasate.

Archaeologists are discovering how prehistoric men lived during the lower Palaeolithic, over 150,000 years ago. The area in which the excavation is centred at the time being was apparently used as a workshop by early inhabitants.

These men lived surrounded by hazelnut and oak trees and ate their fruits. No remains of burnt hazelnuts have been found.

Unesco experts will visit the caves of Ekain, Altxerri and Santimamiñe in September to decide if they add them to the World Heritage List.

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