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Five researchers from the universities of Durham and Winchester are conducting a pilot study, funded by the Leverhulme Trust and the University of Durham, entitled 'Developing new methods to date historical irrigation' Jumilla and is having as one of its destinations.
Siendos jobs are held by Christopher Gerrard, Alejandra Gutierrez and Nathan Jankowski (University of Durham) and Keith Wilkinson (University of Winchester)
The aim of the study are the mines of water, an ingenious method to extract and convey water from which emerges in the aquifer to a pond or fountain.
Water mines are abundant in southwestern Spain and especially in the region of Murcia, but there is little evidence certain documentation or indicating the exact date they were built.
The mining of water and appears in Persia (now Iran) in the first millennium BC, from where it is thought that was spreading to China in the east and north Africa by the West, and from there to Spain and America.
To test this new method the researchers are taking samples of accumulated dirt mounds around the sores or to isolate quartz glasses in the soil and date them by optically stimulated luminescence (OSL).
These dates can understand the process and timing of the accumulation of land around the sores and therefore its construction.
The method can only be used in mines where sores or glasses are still preserved intact.
Although there are abundant water mines in Spain, and there are very few which survive cold sores.
The study includes two sets of the few that remain and are precisely Murcia: The mine Casa del Manzano in Jumilla and the Stables in Totana.
The team also analyzed two mines in southern Morocco and one in Oman.
In studies they are underway in Jumilla is collaborating ethnography section Jerónimo Molina Museum.
This will help you understand a little better the historic irrigation Jumilla and the region and development of this important system engineering worldwide.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla
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