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The mayor of San Javier Pepa García announced this morning by the delegate of the Government in Murcia, Rafael González Tovar opened a Center on the site of Underwater Archaeology Under the hood, near the island Grossa, La Manga After the visit they have made to the site that responds to a research project on a Phoenician ship sank with a large shipment of the 620 BC which was launched in 2007 by the Institute Nautical of Archeology (INA) from The University A & M Texas and the Ministry of Culture of Spain sponsored, among others, National Geographic.
The Interpretation Centre sponsored by the Spanish Association of Friends of the Underwater Archaeology in collaboration with the municipality of San Javier will be located in a room donated by the City Council in the gallery Los Flamencos, photo exhibitions and displays, and offers lectures, conferences, as educational workshops, among other activities "to promote general awareness of this deposit, the largest in the Mediterranean, which will allow us to reconstruct the little-known story of the Phoenician people," said the Mayor.
Juan Pinedo director of the project said after the visit by boat to the area where the wreck is located, that the Phoenician vessel, which are calculated each 20metros in length, is the largest of those discovered so far in the Mediterranean.
To which is added the importance of the cargo, which has been partly removed, including elephant tusks, some with inscriptions, and commodities such as tin ingots, copper ore and galena.
The ship also carried a complete collection of Phoenician pottery and other objects like a pedestal, Phoenician remains of a bed, a ritual knife of ivory, which scholars have related to funerary materials for the local elite.
Other elements have documented life aboard.
"We know for example that they were going fishing or eating pine nuts," said Juan Pinedo acknowledged the collaboration of the National Museum of Underwater Archaeology, ARQUA of Cartagena, which works technically, and receives and restores all debris removed from excavations.
The work done so far focus on the Phoenician ship, but the site has three boats, two other contemporary Roman and sunk in a common wreck, off the coast of La Manga.
Juan Pinedo co-directed with Mark.
E.
Polzer, a team of volunteer archaeologists from Spain, USA, Greece, Holland, Australia, Italy, France and Turkey, said "the importance of the findings gives us a very accurate idea of how trade relations were Phoenicians, and allows us to decipher things that we thought by now we can text and document. "
The research project, which has developed since 2007, during the 3 summer months, expiring next year when the agreement expires that has made it possible, though its leaders are confident they can continue it "several years."
The mayor of San Javier Pepa Garcia highlighted the importance of this site "that places San Javier in a prominent place in global underwater archeology" and agreed with the Government Delegate, Rafael González Tovar to encourage continuity, and to call general against the plundering of wrecks like this one guarded during the summer by Harbour Master, and whose preservation will the SIVE, as announced by the Government Delegate in Murcia.
http://www.murcia.com/sanjavier/fotos/2010/yacimiento-subacuatico-bajo-campana/
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier. Foto: Murcia.com
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