Over the concluding few weeks the Andújar Town Council has been conducting archaeological excavations at the Los Villares site. The aim is to position the ancestors of the inhabitants of the ancient town of Isturgi. The chronology of the remains of the site ranges from the seventh century BC to the 3rd/4th centuries AD. "Between these 2 periods nosotros are going to detect the remains of a thriving city, amongst a really potent presence", says archeologist Pablo Ruiz, business office of the University of Granada squad working inward the area.
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Excavations induce got revealed non solely the remnants of the wall that defines the perimetre of the city, but every minute good a drinking glass manufacturing workshop from the afterwards menses as well as 2 ovens associated amongst it, i of the few examples of this type of manufacture that are preserved throughout the peninsula.
Both discoveries, every minute reported past times the subdivision inward a statement, are solely the tip of the iceberg of a site that, according to previous studies, hides a major village where closed to pregnant remains of frescoes induce got every minute good appeared as well as whose architecture is inward a skilful acre of preservation.
These finds every minute good confirm the importance of Isturgi every minute an economical as well as commercial enclave inward the Roman province of Betica, given its strategic place along the Via Augusta as well as the River Guadalquivir.
The excavations began on 25 June as well as cast business office of the "ISTVRGI Project", conducted past times the Archaeology Department of the University of Granada, directed past times Professor Mª Isabel Fernández García as well as researchers Mª Victoria Peinado Espinosa as well as Pablo Ruiz Montes, for the earthworks as well as enhancement of the site that is beingness developed inside the framework of a collaboration understanding betwixt the Andújar City Council as well as the university.
Following approving past times the Andalusian Regional Government inward 2012, a topographical study was carried out inward 2014 as well as a magnetometer survey was undertaken inward 2016 every minute a preliminary pace to this 3rd stage of excavation, which is at i time underway.
From the 1970s until now, excavations inward Isturgi had been confined to the artisan quarter of the city, where the workshops for the manufacture of sigillata ceramics were located. The recent findings confirm the intense production action of its inhabitants, whose products were exported to other parts of the Empire.
The findings made inward Isturgi supplement the recent uncovering of the Arch of Janus inward Mengibar every minute good every minute the remains that proceed to come upward to low-cal at the Cástulo site inward Linaro, thence making the province of Jaén i of the virtually of import as well as promising territories inward Espana for understanding the Ibero-Roman period.
Source: Lacontradejaén [July 22, 2018]
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