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05-08-2019, 08:58 PM
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The second phase of archaeological excavation begins at the aboriginal site of the Cave of Villaverde
The City Council of La Oliva has installed interpretive canvases outside the town, in addition to co-financing the research
The project has informative actions such as guided tours every Friday (1:30 p.m.), or talks in Raíz del Pueblo (Tuesday, August 6 and Wednesday, August 7)
The second phase of archaeological excavation in the Cave of Villaverde has already begun, a site declared BIC that houses in its interior an important aboriginal village, and whose occupation could extend for approximately a millennium.
To continue shedding light on a cultural and heritage space of enormous value, the City Council of La Oliva has been involved for the first time in a project of this type, co-financing with the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage of the Government of the Canary Islands the investigation that Arenisca executes Archeology.
The City Council has also paid for the installation of a series of interpretive canvases outside the cave. "These large-format canvases offer interesting information about how it was discovered in 1979, about the burial of a man and a boy who appeared then, or about the culture of the mahos, such as the containers and utensils they used," explained the councilor of Culture and Heritage, Iballa Pérez.
When they are next to the Villaverde crossing, the tarpaulins cover the enclosure of the cave and draw the visitor's attention to the existence of this space. A QR code redirects to the website www.yacimientocuevadevillaverde.org, where extensive information about the site is disseminated, such as interviews with experts, an excavation diary, or an interesting virtual three-dimensional visit to the volcanic tube.
Guided tours every Friday
Within the dissemination actions on the Cave of Villaverde, the team of researchers of the Arenisca Arqueología company organizes guided tours of the site every Friday, starting at 1:30 p.m. These visits are free and open to the general public.
Summer School of Archeology and Anthropology
Another novelty of this second phase is the launch of the Summer School of Archeology and Anthropology, with talks twice a week at the Root People's Cultural Association, until August 15.
The first talks are the following:
Tuesday, August 6 | 5:00 p.m.
Bones that speak. Archaeologists who listen.
By Jonathan Santana Cabrera.
Wednesday, August 7 | 18:00.
Skills and knowledge from arid territories.
By María Elena Gutiérrez Lima.
As Arenisca Arqueología clarifies, this is the first time that a summer school with these characteristics is held in Fuerteventura. The Summer School of Archeology and Anthropology is organized by the EDUCERE alliance, a network of anthropology and education at the University of Oxford, led by anthropologist Elizabeth Rahman, the Canarian Anthropology Association, and Sandstone. In addition, the University of La Laguna (ULL) and ULPGC collaborate.
The AVA is funded by the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage of the Canary Islands, and has the collaboration of the City Council La Oliva, housing students in the Hostel of El Cohombrillo.
The archaeological excavation of the Cave of Villaverde continues
If the last archaeological investigation carried out in 2018 was promoted from the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage of the Government of the Canary Islands, in this second phase, the City Council of La Oliva is involved with funding, in addition to the transfer of space, because the cave is located in a municipal land.
This phase will take place over five months from July 2019, and will feature developments such as expanding the excavation surface, trying to delimit the entity of the site, or new analyzes of archaeological material.
In this sense, bio-anthropological studies of the remains of the burial of an adult man and a child will be carried out, analysis of the material extracted in the first phase to learn more about the vegetation, the climate and the landscape in past times, or the search for seeds to try to understand if there were crops.
The Cave of Villaverde was discovered in 1979, after the collapse that some works caused in this volcanic tube. Inside there appeared an interesting aboriginal burial, as well as vestiges of settlement. After the first excavations carried out in the eighties, last year the excavations that have confirmed, three decades after leaving the investigation, the importance of the deposit were resumed.
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The second phase of archaeological excavation begins at the aboriginal site of the Cave of Villaverde
The City Council of La Oliva has installed interpretive canvases outside the town, in addition to co-financing the research
The project has informative actions such as guided tours every Friday (1:30 p.m.), or talks in Raíz del Pueblo (Tuesday, August 6 and Wednesday, August 7)
The second phase of archaeological excavation in the Cave of Villaverde has already begun, a site declared BIC that houses in its interior an important aboriginal village, and whose occupation could extend for approximately a millennium.
To continue shedding light on a cultural and heritage space of enormous value, the City Council of La Oliva has been involved for the first time in a project of this type, co-financing with the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage of the Government of the Canary Islands the investigation that Arenisca executes Archeology.
The City Council has also paid for the installation of a series of interpretive canvases outside the cave. "These large-format canvases offer interesting information about how it was discovered in 1979, about the burial of a man and a boy who appeared then, or about the culture of the mahos, such as the containers and utensils they used," explained the councilor of Culture and Heritage, Iballa Pérez.
When they are next to the Villaverde crossing, the tarpaulins cover the enclosure of the cave and draw the visitor's attention to the existence of this space. A QR code redirects to the website www.yacimientocuevadevillaverde.org, where extensive information about the site is disseminated, such as interviews with experts, an excavation diary, or an interesting virtual three-dimensional visit to the volcanic tube.
Guided tours every Friday
Within the dissemination actions on the Cave of Villaverde, the team of researchers of the Arenisca Arqueología company organizes guided tours of the site every Friday, starting at 1:30 p.m. These visits are free and open to the general public.
Summer School of Archeology and Anthropology
Another novelty of this second phase is the launch of the Summer School of Archeology and Anthropology, with talks twice a week at the Root People's Cultural Association, until August 15.
The first talks are the following:
Tuesday, August 6 | 5:00 p.m.
Bones that speak. Archaeologists who listen.
By Jonathan Santana Cabrera.
Wednesday, August 7 | 18:00.
Skills and knowledge from arid territories.
By María Elena Gutiérrez Lima.
As Arenisca Arqueología clarifies, this is the first time that a summer school with these characteristics is held in Fuerteventura. The Summer School of Archeology and Anthropology is organized by the EDUCERE alliance, a network of anthropology and education at the University of Oxford, led by anthropologist Elizabeth Rahman, the Canarian Anthropology Association, and Sandstone. In addition, the University of La Laguna (ULL) and ULPGC collaborate.
The AVA is funded by the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage of the Canary Islands, and has the collaboration of the City Council La Oliva, housing students in the Hostel of El Cohombrillo.
The archaeological excavation of the Cave of Villaverde continues
If the last archaeological investigation carried out in 2018 was promoted from the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage of the Government of the Canary Islands, in this second phase, the City Council of La Oliva is involved with funding, in addition to the transfer of space, because the cave is located in a municipal land.
This phase will take place over five months from July 2019, and will feature developments such as expanding the excavation surface, trying to delimit the entity of the site, or new analyzes of archaeological material.
In this sense, bio-anthropological studies of the remains of the burial of an adult man and a child will be carried out, analysis of the material extracted in the first phase to learn more about the vegetation, the climate and the landscape in past times, or the search for seeds to try to understand if there were crops.
The Cave of Villaverde was discovered in 1979, after the collapse that some works caused in this volcanic tube. Inside there appeared an interesting aboriginal burial, as well as vestiges of settlement. After the first excavations carried out in the eighties, last year the excavations that have confirmed, three decades after leaving the investigation, the importance of the deposit were resumed.
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