The Andalusian Centre of Iberian Archaeology today presented the results of the study being done on the Battle of Baecula, in order to find out what was the right place at the event held this war. In the last campaign have made two new discoveries, a bread oven of large proportions, and a new camp in the Hill of the Basils, municipality of Santo Tomé (Jaén). Barea
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Baecula
The battle took place in 208 BC under the Second Punic War and marked the beginning of the Roman conquest of the Guadalquivir Valley. Polybius and Livy recounted the events and the sequence of this military action and detailed how, before the arrival of the Roman army divisions, the Carthaginians retreated to a height protected by a river and the Roman general decided to attack Hasdrubal Barca in their own camp. The battle also involved other groups such as the Iberians who directed the chief Ilergets Indibil and Mardonio, who attended the Roman side and the Balearic slingers and Masinissa Numidian horsemen, who did Punic side. In 2004 the Andalusian Centre for Iberian Archaeology (IAAC) proposed that the battle of Baecula happened in the Cerro de las basil Sao tome and the Cerro de los Turruñuelos was the oppidum (fortified town) of Baecula. Since 2006 we develop a systematic research project of the Ministry of Culture of the Junta de Andalucía, which joined in 2007 a second draft of National Plan I + D + I of the now Ministry of Science and Innovation. In 2009 the project has reached half the development time of work, why make an assessment of the results and a reflection on the steps to take in the years remaining until completion of the investigation, what will happen past three years of work. Latest results After a surface survey and several Archaeological surveys in the oppidum found in
Turruñuelos, IAAC researchers say the oppidum was founded in the fourth century BC and did not reach the second century BC, and during its existence the settlement was one of the largest oppida Alto Guadalquivir, then exceeded 20 ha. This fortified city reached during his life a strong urban development, supported by the careful treatment, with paved, some public spaces or building a bread oven of major proportions, which has provided abundant information on the feeding of the Iberians. To move around, "the passage of time has ruined some parts of its interior work gravel extraction, "said Jean-Pierre Bellon, head of the excavation at this site. Also in 2006, made an intervention with archaeological surveys in the Cerro de las Basils, and since then annually microprospección. From now on, said Francisco Gomez, has been prospected mtrs2 185,000, representing 4.6% of the total surface of the high plateau area is located where the lethal act of war. In all this space is an area of \u200b\u200b400 hectares. As a result of this work have been found metal objects 463 of which 128 are offensive weapons and other equipment belonging to objects. Pottery has also been collected from 319 grids, thus begin to get a better idea of \u200b\u200bthe actions developed in the deadly battle, with the distribution of georeferenced materials. "Today, we are able to establish what were the spaces that characterized the area where the melee occurred or the address where the Roman army was deployed," said Francisco Gomez.
Some of the materials found during the last campañaEl archaeological discoveries have occurred in the 2008 campaign, where he has appeared on the geomorphology of a second camp, backed by abundant material, which adds to the camp found in the campaign 2006, which are already two existing ones, an issue that matches the information provided by the Roman written sources. The hypothesis that shuffled at the moment is that this second camp belong to the Carthaginians and the first, already studied, is the Roman, says Arturo Ruiz, director of the IAAC. Future goals in the coming years will continue with the intervention in the Hill of the Basils, microprospección area extending up to 10% of the lethal area, which will specify in some detail the events of the war action. Similarly the new camp will be studied to establish the temporal relationship between it and the previously discovered. In this new stage work is carried out to define the access road to the scene of the battle the army of excision and location of the original Roman camp, thanks to the existence of material and the tack of calligae (sandals) of the Roman legionaries . Finally, close the surface macroprospección all the surrounding territory, ten kilometers around the mountain of basil, which is in an advanced stage of coverage. The ultimate goal, commented Francisco Nogueras Jiménez, mayor of Sao Tome, is the realization of a museum in which to show the pieces that have appeared in this place, which will provide a new incentive cultural tourism and the Sierra de Cazorla.
Baecula
The battle took place in 208 BC under the Second Punic War and marked the beginning of the Roman conquest of the Guadalquivir Valley. Polybius and Livy recounted the events and the sequence of this military action and detailed how, before the arrival of the Roman army divisions, the Carthaginians retreated to a height protected by a river and the Roman general decided to attack Hasdrubal Barca in their own camp. The battle also involved other groups such as the Iberians who directed the chief Ilergets Indibil and Mardonio, who attended the Roman side and the Balearic slingers and Masinissa Numidian horsemen, who did Punic side. In 2004 the Andalusian Centre for Iberian Archaeology (IAAC) proposed that the battle of Baecula happened in the Cerro de las basil Sao tome and the Cerro de los Turruñuelos was the oppidum (fortified town) of Baecula. Since 2006 we develop a systematic research project of the Ministry of Culture of the Junta de Andalucía, which joined in 2007 a second draft of National Plan I + D + I of the now Ministry of Science and Innovation. In 2009 the project has reached half the development time of work, why make an assessment of the results and a reflection on the steps to take in the years remaining until completion of the investigation, what will happen past three years of work. Latest results After a surface survey and several Archaeological surveys in the oppidum found in
Turruñuelos, IAAC researchers say the oppidum was founded in the fourth century BC and did not reach the second century BC, and during its existence the settlement was one of the largest oppida Alto Guadalquivir, then exceeded 20 ha. This fortified city reached during his life a strong urban development, supported by the careful treatment, with paved, some public spaces or building a bread oven of major proportions, which has provided abundant information on the feeding of the Iberians. To move around, "the passage of time has ruined some parts of its interior work gravel extraction, "said Jean-Pierre Bellon, head of the excavation at this site. Also in 2006, made an intervention with archaeological surveys in the Cerro de las Basils, and since then annually microprospección. From now on, said Francisco Gomez, has been prospected mtrs2 185,000, representing 4.6% of the total surface of the high plateau area is located where the lethal act of war. In all this space is an area of \u200b\u200b400 hectares. As a result of this work have been found metal objects 463 of which 128 are offensive weapons and other equipment belonging to objects. Pottery has also been collected from 319 grids, thus begin to get a better idea of \u200b\u200bthe actions developed in the deadly battle, with the distribution of georeferenced materials. "Today, we are able to establish what were the spaces that characterized the area where the melee occurred or the address where the Roman army was deployed," said Francisco Gomez. Some of the materials found during the last campañaEl archaeological discoveries have occurred in the 2008 campaign, where he has appeared on the geomorphology of a second camp, backed by abundant material, which adds to the camp found in the campaign 2006, which are already two existing ones, an issue that matches the information provided by the Roman written sources. The hypothesis that shuffled at the moment is that this second camp belong to the Carthaginians and the first, already studied, is the Roman, says Arturo Ruiz, director of the IAAC. Future goals in the coming years will continue with the intervention in the Hill of the Basils, microprospección area extending up to 10% of the lethal area, which will specify in some detail the events of the war action. Similarly the new camp will be studied to establish the temporal relationship between it and the previously discovered. In this new stage work is carried out to define the access road to the scene of the battle the army of excision and location of the original Roman camp, thanks to the existence of material and the tack of calligae (sandals) of the Roman legionaries . Finally, close the surface macroprospección all the surrounding territory, ten kilometers around the mountain of basil, which is in an advanced stage of coverage. The ultimate goal, commented Francisco Nogueras Jiménez, mayor of Sao Tome, is the realization of a museum in which to show the pieces that have appeared in this place, which will provide a new incentive cultural tourism and the Sierra de Cazorla.
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