- Archaeology, Protohistoric Iberian Peninsula, Prerroman Spain, Iron Age Iberian Peninsula (Archaeology), Late Bronze Age, Early Iron Age, Early Iron Age, and 6 morePottery (Archaeology), Pottery technology and function, Landscape Architecture, Phoenician trade, Late Bronze Age archaeology, and Phoenician and Punic Amphoraeedit
- Investigador Predoctoral FPU / PhD. I am developing my thesis about the economic dynamics and social interactions of ... moreInvestigador Predoctoral FPU / PhD. I am developing my thesis about the economic dynamics and social interactions of the indigenous cultural groups in the Southeast of Iberian peninsula during the Late Bronze and the Early Iron Age. I also work about heritage and teaching issues always related with the valour that Archaeology has to the society.edit
This work presents the first results of the research concerning the area of Cabezo Ventura in Cartagena. This hillock is a predominant feature in Campo de Cartagena, from which can be controlled a large area between Mar Menor, Sierra... more
This work presents the first results of the research concerning the area of Cabezo Ventura in Cartagena. This hillock is a predominant feature in Campo de Cartagena, from which can be controlled a large area between Mar Menor, Sierra Minera Cartagena-La Unión and the peninsula where the punic city of Qart-Hadast was founded. Within the last decades, different archaeological sites have been defined in this area, although a series of material evidence corresponding to the First Iron Age was located in one of the sectors during mechanical archaeological surveys. This work studies these archaeological materials, unpublished to date, as well as the results of the archaeological survey that was carried out in 2017. The aim is to evaluate the scope of this protohistoric occupation of the hillock and its importance within an unknown territory for this historical period, but which is directly related to the coast and the commercial traffic that flowed through it.
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During the Sixteenth century, the North African pirates' attacks hit peninsular coasts, including the southeast peninsular. In this situation, La Manga del Mar Menor was presented like a paramount position which ought to be defended, with... more
During the Sixteenth century, the North African pirates' attacks hit peninsular coasts, including the southeast peninsular. In this situation, La Manga del Mar Menor was presented like a paramount position which ought to be defended, with the aim of avoid the pirates' entrance in the Mar Menor, from where they could attack the productive fields of Cartagena and Murcia. Moreover, the pirates have conquered Isla Grosa, and it has become a point of watery from where they can operate. Therefore, two fortified towers were built in order to protect these coasts: the tower of San Miguel del Estacio, from where they can criticize harshly the ships which could approach to Isla Grosa; and the tower of La Encañizada, erected to defend the fertile weir's fishing area and to protect the only channel which communicated the Mar Menor and the Mediterranean Sea.
