Pictures: Provincial authorities
The newest marketing campaign at Callosa de Segura’s Laderas del Castillo archaeological web site is nearing its finish, having began in March.
These stays of a settlement from the Argaric tradition have been described as ‘one of the vital distinctive websites within the Vega Baja’ by provincial deputy for structure Carmen Selles.
The provincial authorities has subsidised 90% of the price of the dig with €450,000.
Its goal is to preserve the positioning in an effort to set up how it may be opened to the general public.
This contains remodelling the entry space, controlling water run-off on the mountainside for cover, getting ready the itineraries, excavations, consolidation and restoration of buildings revealed by earlier digs, and creating components for the longer term museum.
The Argar principally occupied south-eastern Spain over 4,000 years in the past.
The primary excavations on the western slope of Callosa de Segura have been carried out in 1907-1908 by the Jesuit Julio Fergus, and on the Japanese slope in 1924-1925 by Catalan archaeologist Josep Colominas.
The discoveries made by these and different researchers related the positioning with others within the area.
In 2012 an intensive survey was carried out to divide it into sectors and plan a full excavation as a part of a challenge, instigated by the provincial authorities by way of the Alicante museum of archaeology (MARQ), to look at the historic strategy of the Vega Baja and Bajo Vinalopó areas within the third and second millennia BC.
The campaigns between 2013 and 2021, directed by archaeologists Juan Antonio López Padilla and Francisco Javier Jover Maestre, revealed buildings of a web site spanning over two hectares.
They revealed it was one of the vital vital Argaric settlements, enabled the characterisation of the beginnings of the Bronze Age in Alicante province, and defined how this tradition started and developed in its most northerly territory.
