The copper work in the Sierra del Aramo (Asturias) as cardinal reference in prehistoric mining in the Cantabrian Region
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Copper prehistoric mining is provided with four well established districts in the north of the peninsula: three are in the astur-leonés area and the fourth is located in Guipúzcoa. Among all of them, Aramo’s mountain is the most remarkable due to the amount of information which was providing us. Country searching started again in 2005 don’t merely enrich and point out what it was already realized but they offer large and variable projects to the mining process, to its physical and chronological extent, to its laboral tecnics and instrumental means. The recent location of the activity’s areas next to opencast mining evidences as well as the campamental activities —vestige of the summer establishment of the prospectors at 1100 meters altitude—, such as a f irst metalurgic behaviour to which f irst bell beaker pottery known in the occidental centre Cantabric are associated. The huge amount of human skeletons in the galleries makes up the chance of guessing some miners’s believes, specially the likely comprehension of their work such as the sacking of the underground goods.