Video of the permanent exhibition of the National Archaeological Museum. Prehistoric Area.
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Updated overview of the results of a research project on the prehistoric exploitation of salt in the Villafáfila lagoons (Zamora). The main focus is on the operational chain of the factory at the Molino Sanchón II site, where salt was obtained by the evaporation of the salt flats. But it also discusses the role of the luxurious Campaniform Vessels in this production centre, concluding that they were a symbolic marker used by the elites of the time to control such a lucrative activity.
Video of the permanent exhibition of the National Archaeological Museum. Prehistoric Area.
The ancient Neolithic flint mines of Casa Montero were discovered in the summer of 2003, when archaeological work was being carried out prior to the construction of the Madrid M-50 ring road. A project financed by the 1% Cultural Fund has maintained the research for more than 6 years. The interdisciplinary team made up of more than 59 researchers from 19 institutions and 13 companies has dedicated its efforts to protect, study and publicise the traces left by the communities that came to this enclave to extract flint from the interior of the earth more than 7000 years ago. In this conference we will tell you when, how, who and why they did it.
During the month of July 2019, the last excavation campaign was carried out in the Els Trocs cave, in the Aragonese Alta Ribagorza. It is the right time to make an overall assessment of the ten years of archaeological interventions in a site that has yielded spectacular scientific results that are being studied by a large multidisciplinary and international team.
Both its location next to the axial Pyrenees and at a junction of communications and traditional paths possibly used since the Neolithic period, and the enormous archaeological evidence recovered in its archaeological levels make Els Trocs a reference site for studying the early Neolithisation of mountain areas. Through the different archaeological, genetic, faunal, isotopic and palaeoenvironmental studies, etc., we will try to get to know a human group that in very early dates (last third of the 6th millennium BC) carried out a seasonal exploitation of the environment and used the cave to carry out certain ritual and subsistence activities. The knowledge and/or conquest of the territory must not have been an easy task, since among the human remains recovered inside the cave we find evidence of unusual violence. Nevertheless, in the last campaign, and in a very special place in the cave, we found the only structured tomb in the whole complex; a child’s tomb which we will present as a preview in this talk.
A round table aimed at informing the public about the latest research carried out recently in three large Andalusian megaliths (Menga, Soto and Montelirio), and the importance of their dissemination. This is a unique opportunity to delve into the fascinating phenomenon of megaliths.
The archaeological campaigns carried out at the “moat enclosure” of El Casetón de la Era (Villalba de Los Alcores, Valladolid) have revealed the main features of these sites from the beginning of the Copper Age in the centre of the Spanish Northern Subplateau. The research provides relevant data on the work involved in the construction of this device, on the addition of the moats to a previous settlement and on the agricultural economy of its occupants. The “moat enclosures”, which involve a notable cooperative effort, are associated in the middle Douro valley with the first truly stable settlement and the consolidation of agricultural life.
We have been carrying out excavations at the archaeological site of La Draga since 1991. Its location on the eastern shore of Banyoles Lake has meant that the soils of occupation are partly covered by groundwater, favouring an anoxic environment and the preservation of remains of wood and organic matter.
The site would correspond to an ancient Neolithic peasant settlement that was established in the area between 5,300 and 4,900 BC. Throughout this period, two distinct construction phases have been documented based on their chronology, the materials used and the functionality of the structures.
In the Ekain cave (Deba, Gipuzkoa), a small group of parietal art representations have been found, executed by engraving on clay. The similarities between these and the well-known paintings of horses point to the same chronology: Upper Magdalenian, approximately 15,000 years ago. This type of figurative engravings traced with the finger is not very common, but they appear in the Iberian Peninsula and the south of France throughout the Upper Palaeolithic. In this talk we present the new findings and the implications of the use of this technique in the framework of Palaeolithic Art research.
In October 2015, as chance would have it, during a preliminary archaeological impact study, a Neolithic funerary structure was located, which has since been the object of study in different archaeological interventions. It has also become the backbone of a more ambitious project of research, conservation and enhancement, which is being promoted by the City Council of San Martín del Rey Aurelio (Asturias).
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