{"id":16419,"date":"2021-11-04T19:04:30","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T17:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/?p=16419"},"modified":"2021-11-04T19:04:30","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T17:04:30","slug":"mojacar-la-vieja-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devmojacar.talleragencia.com\/en\/mojacar-la-vieja-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Moj\u00e1car prepares a Moj\u00e1car La Vieja excavations general research project"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Moj\u00e1car Council, in collaboration with the University of Granada, the MemoLab Biocultural Archaeology Laboratory, the Valpara\u00edso Foundation and Patrimonio Inteligente is preparing a General Research Project which will plan future interventions, consolidation, enhancement and content of the Moj\u00e1car La Vieja excavations for the next four years. .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\tTo this end, those involved in the work met at the Valpara\u00edso Foundation. Present were Emmanuel Ag\u00fcero Leclerc, Moj\u00e1car Council Tourism Councillor, the area which manages and promotes the project; Carmen Garc\u00eda Campoy, Director of the Tourism Department; Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Civantos, University of Granada associate professor in the Medieval History Department and MemoLab Director; Beatrice Beckett and Teresa Santiago, Valpara\u00edso Foundation President and Projects Director respectively.<br \/>\n\tAt the meeting there was a review of all the achievements obtained during the three campaigns carried out, and looking to the future, the lines of action, preservation, dissemination and improvements to accesses, as well as the elaboration of the aforementioned project.<br \/>\n\tThe Moj\u00e1car La Vieja General Research Project will be presented to the regional Culture Ministry together with the commitment of the Local Council for its development and support for financing.<br \/>\n\tAt the same time, the works on Moj\u00e1car La Vieja resume, this time consolidation of the excavated elements for their protection, and which will continue until 8th November.<br \/>\n\tSpecific works at the dig site since in fact works on the site continue throughout the year, but now at the facilities of the University of Granada and MemoLab, the University of Granada\u2019s Laboratory of Biocultural Archaeology, where all the findings are catalogued, studied and digitalised.<br \/>\n\t For two weeks, five specialised archaeologists, financed by the company Patrimonio Inteligente, Moj\u00e1car Council and MemoLab, are responsible for ensuring the conservation of the structures discovered in anticipation of the start of the next campaign, which will be carried out in 2022.<br \/>\n\tBoth Moj\u00e1car Council and the Valpara\u00edso Foundation have been the driving force behind the restoration of \u201cMoj\u00e1car la Vieja\u201d, being one of the most important companies which the municipality deals with in its tourism, as well as historical and cultural projection. When they began the first restoration works on the site in 2018, Moj\u00e1car Council signed a collaboration agreement with the Valpara\u00edso Foundation, the majority owner of the land on which Moj\u00e1car la Vieja stands, as well as with the owners of the other plots which make it up, land declared a Site of Cultural Interest (BIC), and which made the survey works and of its enhancement possible.<br \/>\n\tThe archaeological investigation of this settlement can allow for obtaining interesting urban, archaeological and social data about the first Islamic communities settled in eastern Almer\u00eda.<br \/>\nThe results obtained so far are encouraging and speak of an important settlement with a strong military protection, as shown by the wall which surrounded it and the 14 towers which could have had defence purposes, as well as of an important population and trade centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moj\u00e1car Council, in collaboration with the University of Granada, the MemoLab Biocultural Archaeology Laboratory, the Valpara\u00edso Foundation and Patrimonio Inteligente [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualidad-en","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devmojacar.talleragencia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devmojacar.talleragencia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devmojacar.talleragencia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devmojacar.talleragencia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devmojacar.talleragencia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/devmojacar.talleragencia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16434,"href":"https:\/\/devmojacar.talleragencia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16419\/revisions\/16434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devmojacar.talleragencia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devmojacar.talleragencia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devmojacar.talleragencia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devmojacar.talleragencia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}