This event, starting at 6:00 PM and open to the public, is part of the scientific and archaeological research conducted at the Cova del Randero in Pedreguer. The conference is directly linked to the temporary exhibition Rituales de Pastores, currently on display at the Alicante museum.

Key participants include Antonio Carvalho, director of the National Museum of Archaeology of Portugal, and Prehistory professors Primitiva Bueno, from the University of Alcalá de Henares, and Margarita Sánchez Romero, from the University of Granada. Consuelo Roca de Togores and Jorge A. Soler, curators of the temporary exhibition, will also speak.

The activity aims to bring to the general public and those interested in archaeology and prehistory the ongoing research lines concerning funerary rites, symbolic practices, and the treatment of bodies in ancient times, especially those found at the Cova del Randero.

The exhibition Rituales de Pastores, inaugurated last December, presents the results of investigations carried out between 2007 and 2021. Work at this site revealed artifacts and remains suggesting ritual cannibalism practices, including arrowheads, a skull used as a relic, a vessel, and fragments of a child's jawbone. These items are on display in the current exhibition.

The researchers have indicated that these findings confirm the first documented case of ritual cannibalism in the Iberian Levant in a Neolithic context, positioning this site as a benchmark in archaeological studies of funerary ritualism.

At the Cova del Randero, skeletal remains of two children were found, one approximately eight years old and a newborn. Analysis revealed marks such as cuts made with flint tools, fractures to extract marrow, and human bite marks, indicating a particular post-mortem treatment and suggesting cannibalism as part of a funerary rite linked to mourning.