Conferences, Workshops and Seminars

THE CHAO SAMARTÍN AND THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE HILLFORTS IN ASTURIAS

ON THURSDAY, 19TH NOVEMBER AT 19:00.

BY ANGEL VILLA VALDÉS, ARCHEOLOGIST OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM OF ASTURIAS AND THE DIRECTOR OF THE EXCAVATIONS IN THE CHAO SAMARTÍN (GRANDAS DE SALIME, ASTURIAS)

Ángel Villa Valdés will show how, the recovered in the Chao Samartín, allows to interpret correctly and to repay in the same speech the learned in many other deposits of the region and of the rest of Asturias.
Chao Samartín is a deposit key to understand the evolution of the settlements protohistóricos in Asturias. From ends of the Age of the Bronze (about 800 B.C.) it presents a long sequence of occupation of thousand years, until ends of the 2nd century A.D. and your importance is projected, some centuries after your abandon, since it will be to serve as cemetery in the times of the Asturian Monarch.