Turuñuelo

El Turuñuelo, also called Casas del Turuñuelo and El Turuñuelo de Guareña, is an archaeological site in Guareña, province of Badajoz, Spain. It corresponds to the late Tartessian culture developed in the Middle Guadiana Valley in the southwestern Iberian Peninsula in the 5th century BCE after the downfall of the Tartessian archaeological culture's main core around the Guadalquivir valley by the end of the 6th century BCE.[2] It consists of a big building which was ritually set on fire and buried after a hecatomb-like ceremony was performed.[3]

Face found in the site. It features earrings characteristic of the Tartessian goldsmith work.[1]

The mound under which the building is located was already known since the 1980s.[4] The earliest digging works began in 2015.[5] As of 2021, there were another 12 similar structures identified in the region, of which only two, Cancho Roano (Zalamea de la Serena) and La Mata (Campanario) had been excavated.[6] The site was declared bien de interés cultural in May 2022.[5]

The six last steps of the courtyard stairs in the site singularly display the use of lime mortar.[7]

References
  1. Vigario, David (8 April 2023). "El "insólito" descubrimiento arqueológico de Turuñuelo: las primeras representaciones humanas de Tarteso". El Mundo.
  2. Berrocal-Rangel, Luis; Celestino Pérez, Sebastián; Rodríguez González, Esther (2020). Marín-Aguilera, Beatriz; Gleba, Margarita (eds.). "Textiles and Rituality in the Late Tartessian Culture of the Guadiana Valley". Sagvntvm. Valencia: Departament de Prehistòria, Arqueologia i Història Antiga de la Universitat de València. 20: 113. ISSN 2253-7295.
  3. "El Turuñuelo se ha convertido en un ejemplo excepcional para el estudio de la arquitectura tartésica". Hoy Guareña. 12 October 2016. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  4. Celestino Pérez & Rodríguez González 2019, p. 343.
  5. "Meritxell Batet destaca el yacimiento tartésico de 'El Turuñuelo' en Guareña y la "colaboración entre administraciones"". Europa Press. 17 September 2022.
  6. Macías, C. (12 July 2021). "El Turuñuelo: la misteriosa escalera extremeña que podría cambiar todos los manuales". El Confidencial.
  7. Celestino Pérez, Sebastián; Rodríguez González, Esther (2019). "Un espacio para el sacrificio: el patio del yacimiento tartésico de Casas del Turuñuelo (Guareña, Badajoz)". Complutum. Madrid: Ediciones Complutense. 30 (2): 362. doi:10.5209/cmpl.66337. hdl:10261/213982. ISSN 1131-6993.


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