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Already more than a dozen archaeological sites classified as Assets of Cultural Interest in the town in recent months.
The purpose of documentation of the reservoir to protect and preserve archaeological heritage that exists in that area.
La Loma de Soler corresponds to a funerary site dating from Chalcolithic period.
Monday November 8, 2010.
The archaeological site of the Loma de Soler de Puerto Lumbreras has been declared of Cultural Interest by the General Directorate of Fine Arts and Cultural Assets of the Region of Murcia.
Specifically, it corresponds with a funerary site dating from Chalcolithic period (III millennium BC), with a possible origin in the Late Neolithic they seem to denote some of the archaeological evidence documented on the surface.
The purpose of documentation of La Loma de Soler is to protect and preserve the archaeological heritage of the locality.
According to the Councillor for Tourism and Environment, Ginés David Piñero, "sites such help convey the history of the town at various times, and this is already a dozen sites declared of Cultural Interest in the town over the past months. "
Based on the character and density of archaeological sites documented in the Loma de Soler, establishing a core area in which there are three architectural structures of masonry circular, identified as type Ründgraver megalithic burial.
These remains are similar to those found at the site of the Cañada de Alba which is located about one kilometer from the Loma de Soler.
As documented archaeological material at the site, there are many fragments of walls made by hand, oxidizing-reducing cooking with brownish hues paste, temper and calcareous mica, medium size, covered on both sides with the smoothing technique .
In addition, they have found remains of lithic industry, among which a scraper on gray flint.
Meanwhile, following the documentation of the Loma de Soler, the general direction of Cultural Property in co-operation with the council continues to work in other cases to protect various prehistoric archaeological sites in the locality.
Among them are those of 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 of 4,000 years ago whose inhabitants engaged in agriculture and livestock.
Other newly protected sites are those of Peña Blanca, 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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