"THE PREHISTORIC HUNTERS OF THE COVA BENEITO".
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The exhibition "The prehistoric hunters of the Cova Beneito", which will remain open until the end of November in the "Pintor Jover" room of the CENTRE CULTURAL POLIVALENT DE MURO, is a co-production between the MARQ and the Muro Town Hall.
The initial commitment of the Provincial Archaeological Museum of Alicante, promoting and financing the excavation project of the cave in 1980, resulted in three decades of fieldwork and research that have provided an important collection of archaeological materials of special relevance for the knowledge of the last Neanderthals and the current human beings in Alicante.
The Muro Town Council has taken on the technical management of a project that brings together a large team of researchers in which the MARQ, the Palaeontological Museum of Estepona and the Universities of Oxford, Granada and Barcelona are participating. The application of new methodologies has made it possible to obtain innovative data that were previously unknown, collected
extensively in the exhibition.
Panels with explanatory texts and a careful selection of the best pieces recovered will make up the narrative discourse that will help us discover what happened 30,000 years ago with the arrival of Homo sapiens sapiens, as well as the research carried out in the Cova
Beneito, archaeological excavation or how stratigraphy provides data for environmental reconstruction. By means of lithic remains (scrapers, back plates, cut points, foliaceous pieces...) and bone remains (adzes, needles...) we will learn about the techniques used to manufacture tools for hunting and for the subsequent treatment of the game.
objects and human remains (fragments of skull and dental pieces, one of the scarce evidences of this period in the Valencian Community) will allow a better understanding of who they were and how they lived.
human beings who inhabited these lands during the Upper Palaeolithic.
With the opening of this exhibition, the MARQ reinforces its commitment to the dissemination and popularisation of the archaeological and historical heritage of the province of Alicante, since, as will be recalled, the exhibition "Grafitti. Spontaneous art in Alicante" came to an end in Sax on 30 September, and on 1 October the exhibition "El Castellar d'Elx. The origin of the medieval city" was inaugurated at the MAHE in Elche.
In the same way, the exhibition "The enigma of the mummy" will remain open at the MARQ until 17th October, while the exhibition "Iberian votive offerings" - from the Archaeological Museum of Murcia - will remain in the Hall's exhibition space until the end of October. Likewise, on the occasion of the Lamb-Dalí year 2011, visitors to the museum will be able to enjoy Salvador Dalí's sculptures (Clot Collection) in the Museum's garden until January.
