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A group of 15 archaeologists from different parts of the country, led by Alberto Mingo Álvarez, a professor of prehistory at the UNED, and Emiliano Hernández Carrión, director of the Jerónimo Molina Municipal Museum in Jumilla, are carrying out an excavation campaign in Coat of the Monk (Jumilla).

The works began last November 3 and end tomorrow.

They are part of an ambitious multidisciplinary research project focused on increasing the lack of knowledge about the transition from Epipaleolithic to Neolithic in the area.

In these periods of the Prehistory takes place the change from hunter and gatherer life forms to others based on agriculture and cattle ranch, between 8,000 and 4,000 years before Christ.

The site of the Abrigo del Monje was discovered and studied in the seventies by Jerónimo Molina, precursor of the Municipal Museum of Jumilla and master of a generation of archaeologists of the municipality.

40 years later this group of researchers have decided on the interest and potential of the deposit to undertake its comprehensive study with modern techniques of registration and analysis.

The proximity of two rocky shelters with prehistoric cave paintings of Levantine and schematic style enhances the importance of the Monk's Coat.

The possibility that the authors of the paintings lived in this deposit could turn the Monk's coat of arms into an exceptional enclave on the Jumillano Altiplano.

The project has the support of the City Council of Jumilla, which has transferred the facilities of the Integrated Center for Training and Experiences in Agriculture (CIFEA) to host the team of professionals and, in addition, serve as a base for its laboratory and cabinet work during its stay.

This excavation and the archaeological actions that the project has planned for the near future in Jumilla are intended to enrich an archaeological heritage that is already remarkable with the presence of very remarkable deposits, such as the Iberian Coimbra of Barranco Ancho, Chalcolithic El Prado, the Roman villa of the Cypresses, etc.

The success of his works would extend the chronological sequence of Prehistory in the municipality and by extension the Region of Murcia.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla