Estepona Town Hall through the Municipal Culture and Heritage, has presented some of the pieces found in archaeological excavations made in the plot in the works to be carried Hospital Center High resolution site (CHAR), located in the Santa Maria, including within the boundaries of the archaeological site called "Loma de la Alberica 2."
In total, the land no longer used so far involve about 15,000 square meters, corresponding to 50% of the total plot of just over 30,000 square meters.
This first phase of excavations have been conducted by a team of archaeologists Arqueosub company, led by archaeologist Jeremy Perez, under the Compensation Board. The work has been approved by the Junta de Andalucía, and supervised by archaeologists and municipal Ildefonso Joaquín Navarro Aragon, who has explained that among the findings of this first phase of excavations, which have appeared thousands of fragments, highlights a number of excavated prehistoric storage structures in the field, with a length of about 5,000 years (between the Late Neolithic and Copper Age). Inside these structures have recovered several complete vessels made by hand (vessels for food and drink, food preparation, cooking ...), supports Roman weights of fabrics for clothing, sheets and flint arrowheads, axes , stone tools to carve decorations, a pendant of slate, and various anthropomorphic idols carved on slabs of slate, "which are the first of this type discovered in the province of Malaga, which indicate a rising religious sentiment."
The interest of these findings, according to archaeologists, is that it may determine "that the remains buried in prehistoric burial Corominas correspond to the inhabitants of the settlement." In this way, "can further our understanding of their lifestyle, diet, etc. ...".
addition to these prehistoric remains have also been discovered several structures belonging to a village "late antiquity" dated between the seventh and eighth centuries AD C., foundations, severely damaged, a tenth century Muslim farmstead and Roman settlement of the seventh century AD C.
The remains, once documented, were disassembled, with the authorization of the Provincial Historical Heritage Commission of the provincial delegation of Culture of the Junta de Andalucía. Once restored the material is part of the municipal funds of the Archaeological Museum.
Currently, work will focus on clearing and site preparation to carry out archaeological work on the part of the area still unexcavated, which provides for the emergence of new prehistoric remains that are excavated for later proceed to the alienation of plot. As explained
Delegate Councillor for Culture and Heritage, Silvia Cabrera, is that the scientific interest of the site, that this work was carried out in collaboration with the Department of Prehistory at the University of Málaga, "hence the need, highlighted , to value the Municipal Heritage and give the necessary budget. "
Corominas The prehistoric site was located in the northwest of the municipality in 2001, during the work of the Environmental Impact Study for the construction of the highway. Unable to change the draft works, we decided to build a Center of Megalithic Cemetery in an area very close to the site, in the Municipal Park "San Isidro Labrador" in The Pedregal, and move the remains discovered there, consisting of a megalithic burial 5,000 years ago, with 5 graves exceptionally preserved Prehistoric remains of several cabins and a cemetery burial bell with several complete outfits including ceramic unknown in the archaeological record from Malaga. In the vicinity of the area was also found a Roman burial third century C. with dowry.
This is one of the largest megalithic burial not only of the province of Malaga but of Andalusia, with several special features that make it unique: it is the most southerly of the localized, with exceptional preservation.
Interpretation Center Corona is a mound-shaped dome 24 meters in diameter and six meters high, hidden beneath the landscape, and crowned with a central eye, inside which the visitor can see the five megalithic tombs.
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