{"id":18269,"date":"2022-09-07T13:03:12","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T11:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/excavacion-mojacar-la-vieja\/"},"modified":"2022-09-08T09:33:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T07:33:04","slug":"mojacar-la-vieja-dig-2022-underway-in-mojacar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/mojacar-la-vieja-dig-2022-underway-in-mojacar\/","title":{"rendered":"Moj\u00e1car La Vieja dig 2022 underway in Moj\u00e1car."},"content":{"rendered":"

The work project for the Moj\u00e1car la Vieja archaeological site dig for the 2022 campaign has been officially presented, the works starting on 5th September and remaining active until the end of this month.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\tThe MEMOLAb Biocultural Archaeology Laboratory, belonging to the University of Granada, along with Moj\u00e1car Council, gave an interesting informal talk at the Multi-Uses Centre to numerous local residents, which included the conclusions from the discoveries made over the years at the Moj\u00e1car dig site.
\nEmmanuel Ag\u00fcero, the local authority\u2019s Tourism Councillor, opened the speeches with thanks to the Valpara\u00edso Foundation, as well as to the property owners of areas where the site is located, who have allowed greater access to the land for both the University of Granada and Moj\u00e1car Council to carry out this work. This support has made it possible for the Moj\u00e1car la Vieja site to today be part of the 2022-2025 General Investigation Plan, as well as making it easier to obtain more support from the State with regard to the 1.5% Cultural and other financial support, although Moj\u00e1car Council will continue to collaborate financially on this project, as well as the Patrimonio Inteligente (intelligent heritage) company.
\n\tJorge Rouco Collazo, director of the Moj\u00e1car La Vieja General Investigation Project and MEMOLab member, has developed the planning of the Moj\u00e1car General Investigation Plan for these years. The group of investigators is made up of 18 investigators, the majority from MEMOLab, and another 13, external, who are professors and researchers from different universities and analysis centres, such as CSIC, both in Spain and the UK.
\n\tThe general objective of the Moj\u00e1car la Vieja GIP is, essentially, to continue with the line of action of the three previous campaigns: to continue defining the sequence of occupation and the construction phases of the settlement; although it is now known what the phase of abandonment at the end of the 13th century to the 14th century was like, it has still not been possible to determine, at an archaeological level, its foundation in the 12th century.
\n\tAs well as continuing to document the settlement itself, they also want to document what productive activities were carried out at that time and which provided their sustenance, both the handicraft activities and their relationship with the plain and food production labours. They are equally as interested in establishing the relations between the rest of the archaeological sites in the immediate surroundings, whether cultural or commercial, which would be maintained, among other points and almost certainly, with the north of Africa, as shown by ceramic remnants.
\n\tParallel to these actions, it is planned to propose a conservation and maintenance plan that, as soon as possible, allows local residents and visitors to visit the site.
\n\tThe two new areas which are going to be worked on are situated outside the fortification, outside the walls, one of them close to the entrance gate, where it is known, from the remains that can be seen with the naked eye, that there are more structures, and to check whether it is as built on as the interior.
\n\tAt the other chosen point, on the south-east slope, they hope to find areas of handicraft production, as well as of homes, to put together the life of the Moj\u00e1car la Vieja residents.
\n\tThe 2022 campaign has the assistance of 35 volunteers, history and archaeology students from different Spanish universities, being open as always to all those who want to help for the time they can on this work or pay a visit to the site, outside of the two official guided tours which are planned for September.
\n\tThe archaeological activity carried out parallel to the excavation works is to be highlighted, centering on the study of the plain and the irrigation system, making maps and carrying out research, which from the first moment have been done with the irrigators, and which are of great importance for an overall understanding of what Moj\u00e1car la Vieja meant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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