VALENCINA DE LA CONCEPCIÓN (SEVILLA): SECUENCIA DEL POBLADO CALCOLÍTICO Y DE LOS RECINTOS DE FOSOS. CAMPAÑA DE 2019

Abstract

The third excavation campaign during 2019 in the northern sector of Valencina de la Concepción site has documented several huts, including some new ones, UC 314 and UC 444, and the excavation of ditches 1, 2 and 5 has begun. The chronology of the site in the northern sector, from 49 dates, it suggests, at the moment, 6 large phases: Late Neolithic, Early Chalcolithic, 3300-3000 BC, transition Early-Middle Chalcolithic, 3000-2800 BC, Middle Chalcolithic, the best represented phase, 2800-2550 BC, Late Chalcolithic I, 2550-2450 BC and Late Chalcolithic II, 2450-2350 BC. On the other hand, based on the ditches identified in the geomagnetic surveys of 2017 and 2018, and other documented ditches in the modern urban area of Valencina de la Concepción, we propose the presence of 5 ditched enclosures that surrounded the settlement. Enclosure 3, the smallest and internal one, with two parallel ditches, 11 and 12, from the Early Chalcolithic. Enclosure 2, with three wide ditches, 5, 6 and 7, from the beginning of the Middle Chalcolithic. Enclosure 1, with ditches 1, 2 and 3, which presents semicircular gates, like bastions, from the transition of Middle to Late Chalcolithic. The two ditches of enclosure 5, which represent the moment of maximum extension of the settlement, from the Middle Chalcolithic. Finally, enclosure 4, with ditch 10, also from the transition of Middle to Late Chalcolithic, which is 11 m wide, –8.5 m deep and has a V-shaped section, which cut the two ditches, 11 and 12, of enclosure 3.