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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On the presentation of the book ‘Prehistoric art as Prehistoric culture. Studies in honour of Professor Rodrigo de Balbín-Berhmann’. Rodrigo de Balbín Behrmann’s contributions to the interpretation of Palaeolithic Art are the starting point for presenting the state of the art of research, based on the latest works of Portuguese, Spanish, German and English colleagues, and for disseminating them in the English-speaking world.
The authors of the 17 papers that comprise it are part of the most important European research teams. The presence of some of the authors at this round table will allow us to approach some of the current problems regarding the interpretation of Palaeolithic art. In particular, their sequence, extension, topography and, of course, the role of archaeometry in the evaluation of ancient chronologies, which allow us to consider the relationship between these symbolic productions and Neanderthal groups.
Since their discovery more than 160 years ago, Neanderthals have gone from being seen as the losers of the human family tree to being considered first-rate hominids. In her essay “Neanderthals”, Rebecca Wragg Sykes uses cutting-edge research on the Palaeolithic to debunk clichés about our “distant cousins” and reveals Neanderthals as curious and intelligent humans, knowledgeable about their world, technologically creative and adaptable, who managed to survive for over 300,000 years through periods of colossal climatic upheaval.
This book is an open window for discussion and debate, aimed at both laymen and scientists who are tackling a task that is becoming ever more difficult, with surprising new discoveries that require detours and even 180° turns. Exciting research is becoming increasingly topical.
In 2017, the Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha published the Catalogue of Cave Art in the Sierra de las Cuerdas on the occasion of the centenary of the discovery of the Villar del Humo shelters. This is one of the most unique sets of Levantine art declared World Heritage. On the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of the declaration of the Cave Art of the Mediterranean Arc of the Iberian Peninsula in 1998, the dissemination of this volume is proposed, which is designed to bring all citizens closer to the knowledge and understanding of these assets in their cultural and natural context.
Prehistory and Romanisation in the Eria Valley (León-Zamora) is an informative work that brings together, in an entertaining and didactic way, a series of historical events, based on the archaeological discoveries made over the last 50 years in this valley located between the provinces of León and Zamora. The book aims to be a tribute to the first researchers who delved into the distant past of this valley and a plea in defence of the natural and historical heritage of the rural environment. The authors present little-known aspects of its environment, from a multidisciplinary point of view, which condition the first occupations during Prehistoric times and the extensive development that began with metallurgy until the Roman occupation. Archaeological findings and historical documents help to explain the planning of the territory based on geological and mining resources, and the development achieved by the cultures that occupied the area.
This work presents the results of the scientific study of the great megalithic tomb of Montelirio (Castilleja de Guzmán, Seville), excavated between 2007 and 2010. The exhaustive research carried out over almost 10 years, involving 45 specialists from 16 universities and research centres in five different countries (Germany, Spain, the United States of America, New Zealand and the United Kingdom) has included the deployment of some of the most cutting-edge research methods and techniques in modern archaeology. Taken together, the results reveal one of the most fascinating and enigmatic prehistoric monuments on the European continent, in which a mostly female collective of people were buried, accompanied by unparalleled grave goods including objects unseen anywhere else in the world, such as sophisticated robes made from tens of thousands of perforated beads and ornaments of shell, ivory and amber. The innumerable details revealed by the painstaking research undertaken bring us closer in previously unknown detail to the way of life of Copper Age societies (c. 3200-2300 BCE), and in particular to their technology, craftsmanship, patterns of contact and exchange, social organisation and worldview. With this study, Montelirio joins the select group of ‘classic’ megalithic monuments of Andalusian, Iberian and European Recent Prehistory, confirming the cultural and social emergence of the lower Guadalquivir valley in the third millennium B.C.E., the true genesis of the development process of the city of Seville.
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.
Video of the permanent exhibition of the National Archaeological Museum. Prehistoric Area.
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.
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