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Argaric site of Cerro de las Viñas

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Argaric site of Cerro de las Viñas

Nature · Lorca, Alto Guadalentín, Murcia

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In July 1996 the oldest known remains in Spain of a woman who died from obstructed labour were found at the Cerro de las Viñas de Coy (Lorca), belonging to the Argaric culture, dated between 2000 and 1000 BC. The site, also called Cabezo de las Viñas, occupies the summit and the terraces of the northern slope of a hill 913 metres high, today a geodetic point, next to the Turrilla River. The settlement, walled with square or rectangular towers at its corners, was organised into two-room dwellings, one for storage and living, the other, next to the entrance, as a work space. Its economy was based on agriculture, hunting, gathering and probably herding; the site was also occupied in Epipalaeolithic, Neolithic, Copper Age, medieval and Roman times.

Photo: Juanjo Gonzalez9 (CC BY-SA 2.0)

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