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The Councillor for Culture of the Municipality of Lorca, Rosa Medina, this morning reported the results of the second phase of archeological excavations in the eastern area of the castle of Lorca, which will develop the Archaeological Park.
The Councillor for Culture of the Municipality of Lorca, Rosa Medina, reported this morning that the appearance in the second phase of archaeological excavations of the area east of the castle of Lorca in a series of structures that can be identified as a workshop production of glass of the XIV and XV, confirm the existence of a craft area at the end of the Jewish quarter, with several new houses have been excavated.
Medina explained that "the directors of the speech, Dr. Jorge A. Eiroa Rodríguez, Professor of Medieval History at the University of Murcia, and archaeologists Juan Gallardo Carrillo and José Ángel González Ballesteros, enterprise have already presented Arqueoweb General Directorate of Fine Arts and Cultural Heritage the scientific report on the results of the second phase of archaeological excavations in the eastern area of the castle of Lorca (Sector A1-2), in the space where the future is unfolding Archaeological Park Lorca Castle. "
The mayor has emphasized that "this second phase of excavations, registered in the Master Plan-Fort Parador del Sol, was carried out between December 2009 and March 2010 with the Revitalization Plan's Tourism Product and Lorca have results again demonstrate the relevance of medieval material remains stored in the reservoir and shed light on some of the most debated historical issues in recent years. "
Rosa Medina explained that "all this information will help you understand what the socio-economic role played by Jews in the context of late medieval border undoubtedly crucial to judge by the finding of pottery from both sides of the border, both interior of the Nazari kingdom of Granada and Valencia workshop in Paterna and Manises. In addition, excavation has revealed some structures that can help you understand how Lorca was the fortress in the Andalusian period and how was the creation of slum Medieval Alcalá in the second half of the thirteenth century, after the Spanish conquest. "
However, the archaeological studies of the remains found during these excavations have been completed, as they are made in different ways more complex laboratory tests, such as paleobotanical studies of the remains of seeds and found coal tonnage or zoological studies of the bones and remains dental identified, in the coming months will provide crucial data to determine the diet of the inhabitants of the castle in the Middle Ages or the characteristics of the flora and fauna of the landscape Lorca in those centuries.
Currently, we have begun excavation work on a new sector of the future archaeological park, while in parallel, is carrying out the process of consolidation and adaptation to tourist use of the remains exhumed in the first campaign.
All of these steps in the process of historical and archaeological study, consolidation and enhancement of the fortified de Lorca, launched last year, may be known directly by citizens through a program of guided tours of the site which will begin next month September.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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