THE COPPER AGE SETTLEMENT OF VALENCINA DE LA CONCEPCIÓN (SEVILLE): NEW DATA ABOUT THE ENCLOSURES AND DOMESTIC SPACES. 2018 CAMPAIGN
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The second excavation campaign during 2018 in the northern sector of the site of Valencina de la Concepción has documented four Chalcolithic huts with an oval floor plan, semi-excavated in the subsoil, which should have adobe walls, of which the biggest one, UC 447/448, is 6 m long by 3 m wide. Moreover, the largest identified ditch, No. 10, was drilled, which has a V-section, 11 m wide in grid 4 and a maximum depth of 8,50 m according to the drillings made. The main occupation of the sector corresponds to the Middle Chalcolithic, although there are structures assignable to the Early Chalcolithic and more specific occupation of the early Bell-Beakers, Early- Middle Bronze Age and transition from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age. Otherwise, the geomagnetic surveys of 2018 have covered 14 ha and made it possible to identify a fifth possible enclosure with two parallel ditches, which at least are surrounding the North, Northwest and West sides of the settlement.