PRIMEROS RESULTADOS DE LA SEGUNDA FASE DEL “PROYECTO MILLARES” (CAMPAÑA DE 2023)

Abstract

In the framework of the development of PGI Los Millares 2. Origins and justification of social inequality in the Southeast of the Iberian Peninsula, various activities were carried out during 2023. These included graphic documentation and topographic surveying through LiDAR and photogrammetry, geophysical surveys in zone D and the necropolis, excavations in zones C and D, and analysis of the documented materials and contexts. For sequential analysis, radiocarbon dating of animal bone remains from zones C and D was also selected. The results have shown: 1) the continuity of walls II, III, and IV, based on the treatment of LiDAR images; 2) the existence of an excavated area at the bottom of the large oval depression in zone D, considered the deepest part of the cistern; 3) the layout of a complex rectangular building on a platform cut into the highest part of the settlement, in zone C; 4) the existence of more recent Late Copper Age levels than those previously excavated, preserved in the highest area of zone D; 5) the presence of a channel parallel to the wall that delimits zone D to the west; 6) the occupation of the site from around 3200 to after 2200 cal BC.