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The Minister of Culture and Tourism, Pedro Alberto Cruz, presented last October 8 in the research project, museological and dissemination of the archaeological site of La Bastida, in Totana, with the mayor of the town, José Martínez Andreo, and Professor Autonomous University of Barcelona and project director, Vicente Lull.
The plan, which will run from 2009 to 2012, "will make this site one of the main tourist and cultural Murcia," said Cruz, who called it "the most important of the region adjacent to the turnstile and one of the largest in the western Mediterranean. "
Founded around 2,200 BC, La Bastide is the first city that existed in Western Europe.
In the 2,700 square meters explored so far have been identified remains of about 30 buildings, mostly built of stone and large, that show the occupation of La Bastida over nearly seven centuries.
Also uncovered 39 graves, which almost always used a ceramic vessel as a coffin.
Inside each grave lay one or sometimes two skeletons.
The deceased could be male or female and correspond to individuals of all ages, although it has been found a tomb containing the skeletons of two men, "something quite unusual in the fields of culture Argaric" said Lull.
Part of the tombs contained offerings such as pottery vessels, ornaments of stone, bone, copper and silver, and axes, knives and awls copper and bronze.
The excavations using modern digital systems capture, transmission and processing of data and images (high precision GPS, WiFi).
The objects and buildings discovered in the excavations of 2009 receive a thorough conservation treatment and restoration, which allows them to be studied and preserved for the future.
Likewise, it is doing the same work in the houses excavated during the last century still kept up and threatened to disappear altogether.
Because of the work done in previous excavations, which were not available appropriate technology, and the spoilers, the project team has located and is being cataloging of the findings unearthed in museums in Europe, as The Ghent, Brussels, London UK and Almeria, Madrid and Murcia.
Creating a monographic museum
One of the objectives of this project is the installation of a monographic museum at the foot of La Bastida, which will allow the visit to the site itself.
Museum and archaeological park will form a reservoir on the world of The Argar, completely new.
The initiative includes the creation of a living museum in all its aspects and, in addition to displaying the most interesting findings, the visitor can see how it takes place about the research process, from within the excavation to the nearest laboratory analysis where they begin to analyze the findings.
It is envisaged that the first guided tours of the site and labs take place early next November.
The future archaeological park of La Bastida is inserted into a cultural policy that aims to break the seasonality of tourist facilities will be an unavoidable reference for a profile of visitors concerned about the culture and enjoyment of heritage values.
The project of La Bastida also intended to lay the groundwork to create the first international research center dedicated to the Bronze Age in the western Mediterranean in general and Southeast in particular.
The future center aspires to be a meeting place between researchers from different countries and a stimulus for increasing knowledge of past and enhancement of public archaeological heritage.
It is digitizing the documentation of the Bronze Age mainland Southeast to provide the first digital library monographic Late Prehistory in the Iberian Peninsula.
Also create a web portal which will bring about the most important news and research in La Bastida.
The portal will offer various opportunities for public participation and resources available to universities and the educational community in general.
With a budget of around four million euros, the project has the support and sponsorship of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, which gives 1,200,000 euros.
This effort will add also the Ministries of Industry, Tourism and Trade, and Science and Innovation, and the City Council of Totana and the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
The team
Around La Bastida articulates a research project and dissemination musealization led by professors Vicente Lull, Rafael Mico, Cristina Rihuete and Roberto Risch, Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Currently, project members, twenty specialists from various branches of science and technology, most linked to prestigious research institutions among which are the universities of Cambridge and Reading (UK), Tübingen, Kiel and Hohenheim, Stuttgart (Germany), Innsbruck (Austria), Arizona (USA), Barcelona Autonomous University of Murcia and the Museum of Louvre.
See story:
http://www.murcia.com/totana/fotos/2009/yacimiento-argarico-la-bastida/
Source: CARM
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