The site of Los Castillejos de Alcorrín has been studied since 2007 by a team led by Dirce Marzoli and made up of researchers from the German Archaeological Institute, the Centre for Phoenician and Punic Studies and the municipality of Manilva, from an interdisciplinary perspective. The location, size and size of its fortifications, as well as its good state of preservation, make Los Castillejos de Alcorrín a particularly promising site for the study of the first contacts between indigenous and Phoenician populations in the context of the Strait of Gibraltar in the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age. Its strategic position, the exceptional dimensions of this agglomeration and the complexity of its double walled enclosure are evidence of a high concentration of power. With a surface area of 13 hectares and a wall more than 2,000 m long, it is the largest known fortified settlement in the eastern confines of the Tartessian cultural area. From this site access was controlled to a mineral-rich hinterland, north of the mouth of the Guadiaro River where a Phoenician settlement was founded near Casa de Montilla (San Roque, Cádiz), precisely when the settlement of Los Castillejos de Alcorrín was founded.
Collection: Multimedia
Project: 3. Rural world and urban world in the formation of the European identity., 9. Travels and travelers: economic, social and cultural connections.
Chronology: -
Scope: Secondary Education
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlbpwGizZOM
Resource type: Video
Format: Multimedia
Owner: Arqueological National Museum of Spain (MAN) (Modernalia)
Abstract: The site of Los Castillejos de Alcorrín has been studied since 2007 by a team led by Dirce Marzoli and made up of researchers from the German Archaeological Institute, the Centre for Phoenician and Punic Studies and the municipality of Manilva, from an interdisciplinary perspective. The location, size and size of its fortifications, as well as its good state of preservation, make Los Castillejos de Alcorrín a particularly promising site for the study of the first contacts between indigenous and Phoenician populations in the context of the Strait of Gibraltar in the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age. Its strategic position, the exceptional dimensions of this agglomeration and the complexity of its double walled enclosure are evidence of a high concentration of power. With a surface area of 13 hectares and a wall more than 2,000 m long, it is the largest known fortified settlement in the eastern confines of the Tartessian cultural area. From this site access was controlled to a mineral-rich hinterland, north of the mouth of the Guadiaro River where a Phoenician settlement was founded near Casa de Montilla (San Roque, Cádiz), precisely when the settlement of Los Castillejos de Alcorrín was founded.
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