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The Municipal Archaeological Museum, whose restoration work following the damage caused by earthquakes will end in a few weeks, two rooms reserved special Argar disseminating culture.
He exhibited several unpublished pieces and incorporate footage on The Cypress Park.
The Councillor for Culture of the City of Lorca, Sandra Martinez, this morning visited the Archaeological Park of "The Cypresses", located on the site of Oñate in the hamlet of La Torrecilla to mark the twentieth anniversary of archaeological excavation work in that enclave.
The mayor of Culture explained that this site has become one of the most outstanding examples of national argárico town.
We're talking about an absolute gem of archeology whose value is particularly significant since it allows virtually be shown as it was discovered years ago.
It has managed to retain despite the passage of time the remains of one of the very few villages argáricos, constituting the first Archaeological Park Argar culture located in plains.
From City Hall we will influence the diffusion of valuable prehistoric heritage with which we in our municipality, because we know how to exploit the opportunity this represents to attract researchers from other regions and tourists who are seeking this type of deposits " .
Martinez Navarro said that the finding highlight of this site is the "Tomb of the blacksmith" as well as the elements that allow proceeded to recreate how cereal milling 4,000 years ago.
In fact it should be remembered that the weapons, tools and ornaments worn by argáricos were made from copper, bronze, silver and gold.
The discovery of bronze, got copper alloy with tin, made the objects were available argáricos much more resistant.
Much of metallic materials found in the Cypresses are the regalia of the tombs, including parts such as halberds, daggers, knives, punches (some even with cover laborada bone) and spirals.
Along with these pieces also documented stone objects (grinders, anvils, grinders, mills and slabs hands for crushing metal) and worked bone elements (enmangues of daggers, awls and ornaments).
Much more scarce are preserved wooden objects.
Exceptionally documented burials in one of the three fragments of the foot holder of a halberd made in a softwood.
Sandra Martinez has indicated that the creation of the Archaeological Park has allowed society to know and understand the importance of their cultural heritage and their remote history, so that the objectives to be taken into account when planning the enhancement of deposit were to observe the original process or avoiding any unnecessary addition and consolidate parts feasible storage reservoir, thus to prevent deterioration of the original as to reinforce the weaker parts trying to facilitate the reading of the structures (houses, burials, etc..), and from an archaeological point of view, making the visitor remains understandable.
The Councillor for Culture has stated that at the site of the Cypresses have documented remains of eight buildings, each with individual character tendency plant oval, with the bottom of apsidal form, semiexcavadas in the field to adapt to the natural topography of the same and bounded by thick stone walls.
The houses were once the home, workshop and burial.
The graves Argaric of this town were made in the vicinity of homes or inside of them.
The body appears bent in the grave, accompanied by metal objects (tools and weapons), objects of personal adornment (earrings, bracelets ...), ceramic vessels and limbs of bovid, cervid or ovicáprido.
The fifteen burials found in the Cypresses belong to the elderly and children.
The burials documented respond basically 4 types:
Urns (jars).
Named to burials made in the interior of a ceramic vessel.
Mainly individuals were used for children.
Cistas: burial is named composed of six or more slabs of stone placed as a box.
Cist masonry: The grave is built with stone walls, a slab at the bottom and a slab on deck forming a box to house the child corpse.
Pit surrounded by rocks.
After the collapse of the house 4 or mill house, there were two pits that served as burial in a case four individuals and one another.
Spreading our prehistory through the most modern.
The mayor of Culture has said the Park The Cypress has a website where you can find information on it (with the itinerary, educational area, reconstruction of funerary ritual, daily life, economic resources, home, 3D recreations, photos and videos), as well as the archaeological site with downloadable publications that mention this town argárico.
It also includes a section called "Temporary Exhibition" which shows pictures of pieces found in the Cypresses, which at that time were part of that temporary exhibition, with a brief explanation
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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