LA CUEVA" HALL

Archaeology helps to better understand humankind

The sediments from outside the caves are well preserved. Their study, based on samples taken from the profiles produced during the excavation, allows, together with other analyses, the reconstruction of the environmental evolution.

This room shows the process of archaeological excavation of a cave-water cave with rock art representations on its walls and an inscription from the Roman period. The installation takes its references from different archaeological sites in the province of Alicante.

The sediments contain material remains, the product of human activities that took place in the cavity over thousands of years. In order to discover them, the cave is excavated in such a way that different strata and superimposed occupation levels are uncovered in horizontal planes. In this cave, 14 phases of occupation have been identified on the surface of the cave, leaving materials from the Middle Palaeolithicof a phase of the Upper Palaeolithicof the Ancient Neolithicof the Chalcolithicand the Bronze Agefor recording and documentation. Above it, remains from the Iberian and Roman periods have been found, as well as clear evidence of the use of the cave in medieval and modern times.

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The new Provincial Archaeological Museum of Alicante is very interesting from a didactic point of view and at the same time fun, rigorous and spectacular. The Museum also offers the possibility of learning about the archaeological method. In three rooms, the Field Archaeology Room, the Urban Archaeology Room and the Underwater Archaeology Room, you will be able to...

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