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Social History of the Conception: A paradise for archaeologists

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Valencia de la Concepción: A paradise for archaeologists

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The Courier, May 2, 2011.


An international study detected numerous prehistoric remains and a possible dolmen.

The significance of the prehistoric settlements on the ledge of Aljarafe and the importance of the remains preserved for thousands of years are known. Now a new geophysical survey is to ratify it. The review in Valencia de la Concepción through the collaboration of the Ministry of Culture, Inserco engineering firm and the University of Southampton (UK) reveals the location of "a substantial number of potential burial and settlement elements" in subsoil.

assets would be associated with human groups in the Age of Copper and later inhabited the area. The study, sponsored by reason of the proposed regional road variant of the A-8077, detected in the ground "two enclosure ditches" north of these assets, as well as a large number of archaeological features "and what could be a "new dolmen."

On March 2, 2010 the Governing Council of the Andalusian agreed to declare a Cultural (BIC), with the rank of Archaeological Zone, an area of \u200b\u200b779.16 hectares bounded between the municipalities of Valencia de la Concepción and Castilleja de Guzman. This environment contains four major prehistoric funerary monuments such as dolmens of La Pastora, Matarrubilla, Ontiveros and Montelirio, and numerous archaeological sites mostly related to the human population, during the ages of Copper and Bronze, inhabited this area .

This scenario is part of the project promoted by the Ministry of Public Works and Housing to construct a variant that bypassed the cornice of view to connect Aljarafe Beds & Sanlúcar la Mayor. On the occasion of this project, in December 2004, members of the University of Southampton, in collaboration with the engineering firm Inserco, performed a series of geophysical surveys to clarify the location of archaeological deposits likely to be affected, and raised in 2005 a technical report, now collected by Europa Press, which lists the detection of possible "significant archaeological deposits in the surrounding area" of Montelirio dolmens and La Pastora, indicating the accumulation of archaeological potential "three major concentrations" west of the dolmen of Montelirio, north of the municipality and the edge of the survey area.

addition, the study pays special attention the location of what could be "a new dolmen" on account of the concentration of "a collection of items" on top of a hill, but that's just a "guess" given the limited scope of these tests magnetometer. The survey, also reflected "two massive ditches" about five feet wide "difficult" to try and track "curvy" which experts attribute, also hypothetically, to prehistory.

However, this report determined the location means "success" of "a substantial number of potential settlement and funerary items associated with the occupation of the Chalcolithic and later ", with special emphasis on these two ditches and a possible new" tomb chamber.

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