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<< Our Photo Pages >> Motilla del Azuer - Hillfort in Spain in Castilla La Mancha y Madrid

Submitted by Andy B on Saturday, 08 January 2011  Page Views: 8700

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Motilla del Azuer
Country: Spain Region: Castilla La Mancha y Madrid Type: Hillfort

Latitude: 39.043518N  Longitude: 3.497643W
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Motilla del Azuer
Motilla del Azuer submitted by Andy B : Motilla del Azuer by Carlos J. Rubio (Vote or comment on this photo)
Researchers of the Group of Recent Prehistory Studies (GEPRAN) of the University of Granada, from the department of Prehistory and Archaeology, have taken an important step to determine how life was in the Iberian Peninsula in the Bronze Age. Since 1974, archaeologists from Granada, directed by professors Trinidad Nájera Colino and Fernando Molina González, have been working on the site of the Motilla del Azuer, in the Southern province of Ciudad Real, in search of the necessary information to reconstruct the day by day in this thrilling and unknown historical period.

The sites, known as motillas, represent one of the most peculiar types of prehistoric settlements in the Iberian Peninsula. They occupied the region of La Mancha in the Bronze Age between 2200 and 1500 BC, and they are artificial mounds, 4 to 10 m high, a result of the destruction of a stone fortification of central plan with several concentric walled lines. Its distribution in the plain of La Mancha, with equidistanes of 4 to 5 kilometres, affects river meadows and low areas where the existence of pools was quite frequent until recent dates.

Although they were already known since the end of the 19th century, motillas were erroneously considered to be burial mounds until the middle of the seventies, when the start of the research work on the Motilla del Azuer carried out by the University of Granada showed that it was a fortification, surrounded by a small settlement and a necropolis. It is the first site of this kind to be excavated in a scientific and systematic way.

Technical features

The mound of the fortification which has been recovered has a diameter of about 50 metres, and is composed of a tower, two walled enclosures and a large courtyard. The central core is composed of a tower of masonry of square plan, with 7 metres high east and west fronts and an interior accessible through ramps inlaid in narrow corridors, which confer a particular nature to the place.

The researchers explain that the settlement of the Azuer contains the oldest well found in the Iberian Peninsula. The inside of this type of walled enclosures protected basic resources such as water, collected from the phreatic stratum through the well, and was also used to store and process cereals on a large scale, to occasionally keep the livestock and to product pottery and other home-made products, whose remains have also been found.


Source: University of Granada - via Eureka Alert

Note: Bronze Age man suffered broken bone in neck, and lived
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Motilla del Azuer
Motilla del Azuer submitted by Andy B : Motilla del Azuer excavations by Carlos J. Rubio (Vote or comment on this photo)

Motilla del Azuer
Motilla del Azuer submitted by Andy B : Motilla del Azuer archaeological site (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Motilla del Azuer by ShamrockStone on Sunday, 28 July 2019
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[amended. thank you! admin] Region Andalucía is not correct. Should be: Castilla La Mancha y Madrid.
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Bronze Age man suffered broken bone in neck – and lived by Andy B on Saturday, 08 January 2011
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Archaeologists exploring a Bronze Age fortress at La Motilla del Azuer, in Spain, have come across a very lucky man. One of the skeletons is of a man that lived more than 3,400 years ago and suffered a broken hyoid bone, likely caused by a blow to his neck.

The hyoid bone is a horseshoe shaped object located at the root of the tongue. Amazingly enough the injury healed and the man lived to be in his 40’s. He was five and a half feet and had a “moderate” build.

“This injury is extremely rare apart from hanging and strangulation, and it is even rarer since the individual survived this injury to his neck,” writes the research team that made the discovery. “This injury was probably produced by a direct impact to the neck.”
The discovery is set to be published in the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. If you have a subscription to the journal (or access to a library with one) you can already see it on their website. The research team is from the University of Granada, in Spain, and is led by Silvia Jiménez-Brobeil.

Archaeologists don’t yet have a firm date for the skeleton but the site itself dates back between 3,400 and 4,200 years ago.

Brobeil’s team says that it’s unlikely that this man’s injury was an accident. “The location of the injury and the fact that it is healed, suggest that a direct impact was the cause rather than a bimanual strangulation,” the team writes.

Furthermore the place where this man lived, Motilla del Azuer, was clearly built with war in mind. “It was a fortification, surrounded by a small settlement and a necropolis,” a team of archaeologists led by Trinidad Nájera Colino and Fernando Molina González said in a 2007 press release.

“The mound of the fortification which has been recovered has a diameter of about 50 metres, and is composed of a tower, two walled enclosures and a large courtyard.” The tower was “7 metres high, east and west.”

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