Cova Foradada cerca de Calafell

Seguí la ruta subido por Guille Rutas https://www.wikiloc.com/hiking-trails/cova-foradada-calafell-69447801 pero a la vuelta iba bordeando el viñedo que fue agradable. Es una ruta bastante fácil y muy corta, aunque no está señalizada. Hay algunas partes pedregosas que hay que subir, pero no hay nada difícil.
Se destaca el contraste entre los ruidos de la carreteras C32 y C31, y las lineas eléctricas hacia el noroeste, y los cantos de las pajaritos en el bosque, y al otro lado de la loma el silencio y las vistas rústicas hacia el sureste.
Se pasa por la cantera de l'escarnosa, un merendero, que era una cantera durante siglos. Lamentablemente había bastante basura por aquí, rastros del hombre Homo sapiens (el moderno). Luego se puede seguir hacia arriba hasta llegar a una cueva. Esta cueva fue la razón porque venía.
Se han encontrado varios rastros del hombre prehistorico allí junto con unas herramientas de piedra que utilizaban. Destacan 2 descubrimientos.
Uno fue un dedo de un águila imperial con indicaciones que fue gravado por un Neandertal (Homo neanderthalensis) hace 37 miles de años, junto con unas puntas de herramientas líticas claramente de la época Châtelperronian! Este artefacto fue el primer hallazgo de lo que fue probablemente una obra de arte o para uso simbólico o espiritual y no fue un resto de una comida (porque no son muy comestibles las garras de las águilas). Además será el artefacto que tiene la más antigüedad en Iberia y también hasta hoy es el último artefacto neandertal. Poco después los neandertales se extinguieron. Hasta muy poco no se creían que los neandertales eran capazes de imaginación simbólica. Ahora solamente se ve bolsas plásticos y basuras en la cueva, pero me ilusionó saber que hace tantos años acampaban hombres prehistóricos aquí.
El otro hallazgo interestante fue mucho más reciente. Varios seres de nuestra especie (Homo sapiens) fueron enterrados en la cueva hace solamente 5,000 años, un poco antes de la edad del bronce. Uno del grupo fue un hombre que tenía más de 50 años que fue matado. Él tuvo una fractura grande en el cranio hecho por una azuela de piedra desde detrás.
Cuando andaba por esta senda que te sube por un bosque y te regala unas vistas del entorno - de carreteras, viñedos, marinas, nunca imaginaba que había tanta historia por aquí.

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I followed the trail uploaded by Guille Rutas https://www.wikiloc.com/hiking-trails/cova-foradada-calafell-69447801 but on the way back I skirted the edge of the forest and the vineyards, which was great. It is an easy short trail, although there are no trail signs.
It is a trail of surprising contrasts. To the northwest the traffic on the C32 and C31 highways sounded like a roar, and the electric pylons contrast with the birds singing in the forest, and the relative silence and rural scenery on the opposite southwestern side.
The trail begins by passing by the disused L’Escarnosa quarry, where there is a picnic site with tables, benches and some rubbish bins. This quarry apparently was used from the 15th to the present century before it was abandoned. Sadly there is quite a lot of rubbish lying around, signs of Homo sapiens (the most sophisticated and modern one of our age). From here you can climb a gentle slope following pylons where you enter the woodland again and continue along a forested ridge. This takes you to a small cave, which was the reason I wanted to hike this trail.
The cave was a burial site and over the years has been excavated, although it does not look like it is anything but a small and insignificant hole today. Archeologists found signs of sporadic use including stone tools from Neanderthal to pre-Bronze age times. Two documented finds shine.
One was the discovery in one of the lower beds dating 37 thousand years ago, of an eagle talon that had cut marks on it, along with stone tools that were Châtelperronian. This is a period and style only used by Neanderthals, although our species, Home sapiens, had recently arrived in Europe by then. The significance of these cut marks is huge, because it was the first find of what was most likely a work of art or something that had symbolic use made by Neanderthals. Those cut marks were unlikely to have been made to de-flesh the talon for food, because there is little more than skin on an eagle talon. Furthermore similarly worked eagle talons from the same period had been found in other sites in south-western Europe (including Croatia), but never before in Spain. It shows how widespread this culture was. This is so far the oldest artefact discovered in Iberia. Very recently we are learning that there are paintings dating to this and earlier periods, but this is a transportable item that perhaps had a spiritual or tribal significance. Until very recently Neanderthals were not thought to be capable of symbolic thought, and this is still controversial. Today the only signs of humans in the cave are what could be a couple of tombs carved into the rock (but I´m not sure this is what they are) and plastic bags and other rubbish. Nevertheless it was amazing to think that over thousands of years prehistoric people camped here.
The other interesting find was a much more recent one. About 5,000 years ago, just before the advent of bronze (when copper was already being used), several people were buried here. One of these was a man over 50 years old who it appears had been murdered by a blow to the back of his skull using a stone adze.
When I hiked this easy trail through the wooded rise, which presents you with the surrounding views of highways, vineyards, marinas and the Mediterranean, I would never have guessed that there was so much really ancient history here.