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It is an agricultural settlement of the culture of the Argar, framed between 2000 and 1500 BC |
Tuesday September 14, 2010.
The archaeological site of the small island of Puerto Lumbreras has been declared of Cultural Interest by the General Directorate of Fine Arts and Cultural Assets of the Region of Murcia.
The archaeological site corresponds to an agricultural settlement of the culture of the Argar, framed between 2000 and 1500 BC, and it is localized exclusively ceramic material.
The purpose of documentation of the Islice to protect and preserve the archaeological heritage of the locality.
According to the Councillor for Tourism, Ginés David Piñero, "This is the fifth site listed as a cultural interest in the town during this month. These sites help convey the history of the town at different times."
The archeological area spanning the top and sides of an elongated ridge with east-west, over which documents a scattering of archaeological material in an estimated ratio of 1 item x 100 m².
The archaeological material is exclusively ceramic fragments and correspond to very wheeled attachment Argaric, burnished walls mostly badly eroded.
Is defined as a small agricultural settlement character set to use the resources of the valley, and located in a strategic position clearly, as it is a milestone on the road between the coast and the mines of the Sierra de Enmedio.
It so happens that in recent months the general direction of Cultural Property in ten cases worked to protect other lumbrerenses many prehistoric archaeological sites.
Among them are the Cave of the Lightning and the Llano del Marano, the first coat karst occupied in prehistoric times from the Upper Paleolithic to the Neolithic Age (between 9,000 and 4,000 years BC) and the second a town Argaric ago 4,000 years whose inhabitants engaged in agriculture and livestock.
Others are those of Pena Blanca, Loma de Soler, water tank and water tank Esparragal Poveda, these two late medieval Islamic and Roman times, respectively.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Puerto Lumbreras
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