HE MARQ planned for this year six performances insidel Excavation and Archaeological Research Plan between Alicante County Councilequipped with 130.000 € and under the coordination of the museum director, Manuel Olcina.
The proposal approved by the government team, complete the business introduced in recent years By the MARQ expert team.
The calendar includes six interventions in several regions in the province of Alicante. archaeological remains from prehistory to the late Middle Ages. The first stage will be done in the second stage mid June and the rest of the activity will be concentrated between September and October.
This has been confirmed by the Vice President and the Vice President of Culture, Julia Parrahas shown its unequivocal support for “guaranteeing Continuity of investigations enabling important discoveries to be made and the appreciation of Alicante regions that are of great interest today. Criteria in the Mediterranean basin”.
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The plan will cover the Iberian region. san anton hill in Orihuela and the walled town of Tabaya which in Aspe agar culture From the 2nd millennium BC
In addition, work will be carried out in the region. Banyets Illeta dels As well as El Campello, where it was intended to complete the architectural plan of one of the wineries from the Iberian period (IV-III BC) Manise Tossalwill focus on the consolidation and museumization of the Popilio Bath (1st century AD), whose excavations were completed last year.
Another of the sites in the MARQ program is mill head de Rojales is a site that bears traces of the Iberian period (metal smelting furnaces), but dates back to Late Antiquity (VI-VII centuries AD), with the largest documented occupation being the presence of a necropolis.
Finally, town of ifach In Calpe, he will continue with the excavation plan, which includes excavating several graves from the cemetery next to the church, preparing the ground for future interventions, and consolidating structures discovered in previous campaigns.
MARQ archaeologists
Specific directions for these six actions at the state’s landmark sites will be carried out by archaeologists from MARQ Manuel Olcina. Juan Lopez Padilla, Jose Luis Menendez, admiration martinez, Teresa Ximenez, Eve Shop Owner And Anthony Guilabert. In the same way, as in other campaigns, there is a plan in the Plan. thirty college students volunteer.
Some of the interventions, notably Tossal de Manises and La Pobla d’Ifach, City Council Department of Architectureheaded by Raphael Perez. HE research plan This year, the archaeometric analysis (pollen, sediment, metallurgical, radiocarbon, fauna, etc.) was completed with the documentation and registration of structures (topography, orthophotos) and found objects.