The Geological and Mining Institute of Spain presents Archaeology, Hydrogeology and Environment in the Bronze Age of La Mancha: the Culture of the Motillas, a work of high scientific dissemination that exposes part of the results of the research co-funded in 2014 by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports of the Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha and the Geological and Mining Institute of Spain.
The book explains what life was like during Prehistoric times in La Mancha 2000 years BC. The contents include an exhaustive bibliography and a complete review of the Motilla or Bronze Age Culture of La Mancha. It also provides new data that were unknown until now. In summary, our ancestors suffered a very prolonged drought that led them to build a network of wells (motillas) in this region to supply themselves with water from the aquifer, given that the surface water disappeared from the rivers and springs. At the same time as the wells, burial mounds were built, monuments oriented to the stars in which complex rituals were performed (deposit of offerings, burial of the deceased and transfer of their bones once they had been skeletonised, etc.). Several drawings show the reader the reconstruction of everyday scenes from those times; in fact, they are innovative interpretative proposals that facilitate the understanding of the data offered.
Collection: Multimedia
Project: 0. What is Europe? The European Spaces in the history of Europe.
Chronology: -
Scope: Secondary Education
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85_xWdjfHRc
Resource type: Video
Format: Multimedia
Owner: Arqueological National Museum of Spain (MAN) (Modernalia)
Abstract: The Geological and Mining Institute of Spain presents Archaeology, Hydrogeology and Environment in the Bronze Age of La Mancha: the Culture of the Motillas, a work of high scientific dissemination that exposes part of the results of the research co-funded in 2014 by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports of the Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha and the Geological and Mining Institute of Spain. The book explains what life was like during Prehistoric times in La Mancha 2000 years BC. The contents include an exhaustive bibliography and a complete review of the Motilla or Bronze Age Culture of La Mancha. It also provides new data that were unknown until now. In summary, our ancestors suffered a very prolonged drought that led them to build a network of wells (motillas) in this region to supply themselves with water from the aquifer, given that the surface water disappeared from the rivers and springs. At the same time as the wells, burial mounds were built, monuments oriented to the stars in which complex rituals were performed (deposit of offerings, burial of the deceased and transfer of their bones once they had been skeletonised, etc.). Several drawings show the reader the reconstruction of everyday scenes from those times; in fact, they are innovative interpretative proposals that facilitate the understanding of the data offered.
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