SCOPE is a research group affiliated to the International Institute for Prehistoric Research of Cantabria (IIIPC) whose object is the study of prehistoric societies of the OS of Europe between the Last Maximum Glacier and the Bronze Age.
The group carries out both basic research as applied in Archaeology, focusing on the study of the spatial organization during the Paleolithic period end, in the neolitización of the coastal areas of atlantic Europe and in the symbolism, ritual and the graphic expression during Prehistory.
Currently, the members of the group carried out field work in Spain, Portugal, France, Argentina and Tanzania.
They are at the forefront of archaeological research and the management of some key sites of Prehistoric europe, such as the caves of La Garma, El Pendo (both included in the List of World Heritage of UNESCO) and The Juyo, in Spain, the shell middens mesolíticos valley Sado in Portugal and the cave of Fontanet, and the cemetery of mesolithic of Hoedic in France.
SCOPE (social Evolution, organization of space and symbolism from the Palaeolithic to the Neolithic period end)
Principal investigator :
Members assigned to the group :
Roberto Ontañón Peredo.
Roman Ocana Agostini
Alberto Puente García


