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An ancient civilization in Room Garden] | The opening ceremony will take place on Friday 27 November at 20.00 |
THOUSANDS exposure.
An ancient civilization, organized by the Culture Department of the City of Molina de Segura and the Welfare of the Caixa Foundation, is on view November 28 to December 20 in the Exhibition Hall Garden (on Calle Joaquín Abellán , No. 8, Molina de Segura).
The opening ceremony will take place on Friday 27 November at 20.00 hours, with assistance from the Mayor of the town, Eduardo Contreras Linares, Director of Business Area of the Caixa, José Ruiz, Councillor of Culture, Mariola Martinez Robles and Commissioner of the exhibition, Luis Batista.
The exhibition will be open from Tuesday to Friday from 11.00 to 13.00 hours and 17.00 to 20.00 hours Saturday from 17.00 to 20.00 hours, Sundays from 11.00 am to 13.00 pm and Monday, closed.
For school visits and other reserves, it will be necessary to arrange an appointment at the phone number 968 61 67 32.
Guided tours are conducted Tuesday through Saturday at 18.30.
The exhibition shows the public how the daily life in a village in the Copper Age, around 2000 BC This, combines the scientific rigor of a desire informative.
Reconstructions, models, reproductions of artifacts and artwork, provide detailed information on various aspects related to the megalithic culture of Los Millares and archaeological methods employed in its recovery.
At the same time, a series of large-scale dioramas, partly passable, transport the viewer to the rooms of a little-known period of human prehistory.
COMPLETE DOSSIER ON EXPOSURE
The culture of Thousands
It was developed in Andalusia in the early Bronze Age about 4,000 years ago.
It takes its name from the site of Los Millares in Gador (Almería).
Archaeological excavations have exposed in this place the remains of a walled village, an aqueduct to supply water and a necropolis with more than one hundred megalithic monuments.
Exposure
THOUSANDS.
An ancient civilization reconstructs daily life in Los Millares: the village, forms of social organization, the importance of copper mining, beliefs and rituals of death.
The exhibition is divided into 4 areas:
Area 1: The archaeologist's laboratory
The exhibition opens to the reconstruction of the laboratory of an archaeologist of the last century, with tanks for cleaning parts, measuring tapes, drawing instruments and antique maps of the site.
Arranged around the room, the viewer also discovers archaeological and ceramic fragments as they appear in an excavation.
A series of photographs and models show where there was the discovery and reproduction of one of their graves.
Another model reconstructs the landscape of the area as he must be in 2000 BC
Area 2: The village
Then we move in time to the Chalcolithic period to approximate the lifestyles of people in the thousands.
The cabin.
The visitor is a life-size reproduction of a log cabin and looks inside: the home, with pottery for cooking and holding food, a bed of straw, esparto baskets and ropes, leather, brass instruments and skin.
The ceramic furnace.
A kiln for firing pottery and several dishes at different stages of production introduce us to one of the major industries in the thousands.
Among the objects surrounding the kiln is large vessels, small vessels, and anthropomorphic figures: the idols.
You can also see samples of clay of different textures and colors, mixed vegetables to most porous materials, and tools to decorate the pots when cooked.
The lithic and bone.
Although the company knew Thousands of copper, the most important raw material remained the stone, which was used to make knives and arrowheads, scrapers, hammers, grinding stones, and ornaments.
This section shows the steps for the development of various tools and utensils of stone or bone.
Agriculture and livestock.
In the heyday of thousands, agriculture enjoyed a great development, thanks to new tools and utensils, we have obtained a higher yield of the land.
In this section the visitor can see a sculpture of a kneeling woman grinding grain, an orchard and instruments, arranged as if it were a short break from work.
A special section is devoted to the textile industry and vegetable fibers, with flax and spelled that were used in the manufacture of textiles and baskets.
Hunting.
For the inhabitants of Thousands game was a secondary activity, especially when compared to agriculture.
Aurochs, deer, boars, bears, bobcats and foxes were the most prized prey.
Of them was extracted bones and skins for various household uses.
Trade expansion and social hierarchy.
Thousands society of maintaining business contacts with North Africa, the Mediterranean and the Baltic.
Some exotic objects in this area are proof of that: ivory, ostrich eggs and amber beads.
Los Millares was a hierarchical society, with different managers and specialists (ceramics and metal) who enjoyed privileged positions.
The great buildings of the time (the wall, the aqueduct) and the rich funerary offerings found in tombs, show the existence of senior leadership in power and direction to community work.
Area 3: Mine
The third area of exposure is the mining and metallurgy of copper.
Copper is an abundant material in the area (the sites are located just 12 km.'s Village) and relatively easy to remove.
Malachite Mine.
To start with, shows the visitor as it was a mine at the time.
Malachite was mined with heavy hammers of granite, which opened an irregular trench a few feet deep.
Furnace.
The process of preparing the copper pieces was very laborious.
The copper was obtained from minerals such as cuprite, malachite and azurite, melted in crucibles and molds.
The forms of these early mills were very similar to those of objects made of stone, which is inspired.
The tips, picks, axes, saws and copper knives were harder than the stone and were not subject to size limitations.
Area 4: Necropolis
The last area of the exhibition is the best known of the thousands: the necropolis, with tombs typical corridor dome camera false move and where were buried the dead collectively.
In Thousands have located more than 80 burial sites.
It is believed that each of these tombs belonged to the same lineage, who used it over several generations.
They have found objects as a funerary equipment to facilitate the transition to the afterlife: ceramic vessels, arrowheads, flint knives, stone axes, polished, idols and tombstones.
The grave.
The exhibition plays a grave-size.
In the center, the dead, wearing the appropriate outfit, accompanied by two relatives who celebrated the funeral rites.
Construction methods and types of tombs.
A module shows the different types of megalithic monuments in the thousands and the methods followed to build them.
Community work allowing lift large slabs and transport vast amounts of land.
Death and beliefs.
Funerary stelae, idols made with human phalanges, stone or clay are testimony to the importance attached in the thousands to life in the hereafter.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Molina de Segura
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