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Yacimiento tartésico de Casas del Turuñuelo

Guareña, Vegas Altas, Badajoz

1 Villages · 2 Monuments · 1 Curiosities · 1 Historical milestones

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Yacimiento tartésico de Casas del Turuñuelo

Monument · Guareña, Vegas Altas, Badajoz

Image of Guareña, not of the place itself.

5th-century BC Tartessian site excavated since 2015 by a team from the CSIC and the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. It is the best-preserved protohistoric building in the western Mediterranean, with its two floors still standing up to 6 m high. In its main courtyard the ritual sacrifice of 52 animals (41 of them horses) was documented, the first manifestation of this kind of rite found anywhere in the Mediterranean; later excavations also uncovered the earliest known human representations of Tartessian culture. It is considered one of the greatest Spanish archaeological finds of the last decade.

siglo V a. C. (yacimiento); excavaciones desde 2015

Photo: Alonsoquijano (Public domain)

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