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After more than four decades since its discovery, the microliths found in the archaeological excavation of the Cueva del Peliciego return home.
Last week took place the delivery of parts, in the Municipal Museum "Jerónimo Molina", by the Professor of Archaeology at the University of Alicante, Mauro Hernández, materials that were found in the archaeological excavation that took place in April 1970, which was led by Professor Javier Fortea, who in those years exercised his teaching at the University of Salamanca.
In early 1970, after Jerónimo Molina talks with the Director of Martin Almagro National Archaeological Museum, it commissioned Professor of Archaeology at the University of Salamanca Javier Fortea, to conduct an archaeological dig in the Cave of Peliciego, where they would microlitos theme of the doctoral thesis of Mr. Fortea.
In April of that same year, the excavation and study of the paintings that are in the cave paintings were discovered in 1939. The developed materials found in the excavation led Professor Fortea to study and included as part research of his doctoral thesis.
Also at that time, the Municipal Museum of Jumilla, although it was recognized by the Ministry of Education and Science, was not authorized to collect materials from an archaeological dig.
Professor Fortea commissioned before his death, Professor of Archaeology at the University of Alicante, Mauro Hernández, which would lead to Jumilla materials Peliciego Cave, which he had kept for almost 45 years, considering that this was his site delivery became effective on 18 February, Professor Hernandez.
The materials found in the Cave of Peliciego are mostly armor hunting Mesolithic to Chalcolithic, tips and shafts of arrows, geometric, laminitis and triangles, plus some fragments of worked ceramic, important pieces by identifying with the latest societies hunter-gatherers who might inhabit this part of the current Jumilla.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla
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