Sierra Nevada

After 35 years of abandonment, UGR recovered 3 traditional irrigation channel with the Lugros, Guadix and Graena local irrigators communities and 40 volunteers. 

During two weekends the University of Grananada recovered three traditional irrigation channel of High Mountain in Lugros along with the irrigators communities of Lugros, Guadix and Graena, with the participation of 40 volunteers and the collaboration of Lugros city council.

3D‬ model of a ‪12th century medieval‬ ‪cooking‬ ‪pot‬ from the ‪archaeological‬ ‪excavation‬ of ‪Lanteira‬, Granada (Spain).

Eachtra Archaeological Projects Ltd., with the collaboration of the University of Granada, published the e-book La Alpujarra Paisaje Cultural, downloadable for free from the iBooks Store. We invite you to download it and explore the different resources available. If you like them, please spend 2 minutes to leave a review and make this e-book more popular.

Last Saturday 30th of April, MEMOLA collaborated with the ‪‎local‬ ‪Irrigators‬‪ Communities‬ from ‪Lugros‬ and ‪Guadix‬ (‪Granada) in the annual cleanliness of the ‪high‬ ‪mountain‬ ‪channel‬ of Lugros (‪Granada‬), with the participation of 40 volunteers and the local Municipality Council.

Arqueoandalusí and the University of Granada recovered 2,9 km of ‪traditional‬ ‪irrigation‬ channel of High mountain in ‪Lanteira‬ (Granada-Spain‬), with the collaboration of the local irrigators ‪community‬, the National and Natural Park of Sierra Nevada and the students of Ies Emilio Muñoz. Cogollos Vega.

Stratigraphic sequence of excavation area 50000. Two archaeological layers have been identified, corresponding to the terrace filling for agricultural purposes. Dimensions: 6 x 6 m. Depth: 0.70 m

Rock excavated structure interpreted as a silo. It has been found filled with several stratigraphic units and sealed by a wall during the 2015 archaeological campaign in the area known as El Jarafí, Lanteira (Granada - Spain).

Rock excavated storage structure (silos), 1.25 metres wide and 2.57 metres deep, found in 2015 archaeological campaign in the area known as El Jarafí, Lanteira (Granada - Spain). It was filled with various stratigraphic units.

Final archaeological plan of the Area 60000 at "pago del Jarafí" (Lanteira, Granada). It is visible a big bell-shaped silos, excavated in the rock and abandoned around the XII century.

Final archaeological plan of the Area 30000 at "pago del Jarafí" (Lanteira, Granada). In this area were registered three different elements in a sequence from the VII to the XII century: four silos (three of which still sealed), a part of a big house with three construction phases and an islamic cemetery with 22 graves.