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The Cova de l'Or site museum site and Interpretation Centre<\/strong>both in Beniarr\u00e9s<\/strong>, will close the visiting season on Sunday 14 December. <\/strong>to reopen again as early as mid-March.<\/p>\n During the visiting season that is now coming to an end, the public has been able to enjoy the extension of the exhibition space inside the site itself thanks to an investment of 65,000 euros by the Provincial Council and the MARQ Foundation.<\/p>\n With this performance, the public can observe the profiles up close, as well as the informative contents to understand the different moments of\u00a0occupation of the cavity, to know the methodology and techniques<\/strong>\u00a0The aim is to understand the problems of sites that have been altered, before their recovery and enhancement.<\/p>\n The\u00a0MARQ Foundation<\/strong>\u00a0manages together with the Alicante Provincial Council<\/strong>\u00a0and the Beniarr\u00e9s Town Council<\/strong>\u00a0This cultural proposal offers visitors a complete tour of both the Interpretation Centre and the Cova de L'Or site itself, one of the most important archaeological sites of the Neolithic period on the Iberian Peninsula, declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.\u00a0Bien de Inter\u00e9s Cultural<\/strong>.<\/p>\n For more than three years the site has been receiving organised groups of guided tours at weekends. An attractive route of heritage, historical-cultural and scenic interest that starts at the interpretation centre, located in the town centre of Beniarr\u00e9s, and culminates with a visit to the Cova, and which has already been visited by nearly three thousand two hundred people<\/strong>.<\/p>\n In this summer's archaeological excavation campaign, the following have been located\u00a0materials from different periods<\/strong>These, together with the C14, sedimentological, geological and geological analyses of the different materials found, will provide more data for a better understanding of the uses and occupations of the cave in different historical periods.<\/p>\n The work to improve the museographic supports, accessibility and security in the enclave also includes the future installation of\u00a0audiovisual and musical resources<\/strong>. Likewise, the route has been adjusted by creating a new linear itinerary of about 65 metres in length inside the cave that will allow a ring route.<\/p>\n The Cova de l'Or de Beniarr\u00e9s is located 675 metres above sea level, on the southern slope of the group of reliefs that make up the\u00a0Benicadell mountain range<\/strong>. It contains an archaeological site of enormous importance for the knowledge and research of the\u00a0Neolithic of the Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula<\/strong>. The quality and significance of the archaeological material found in the excavations carried out since the 1930s suggest that the cave was a place of social reference for settlers of Mediterranean origin who, at the time of the excavations, had been living in the area.\u00a0mid-6th millennium BC<\/strong>introduced in these valleys the practice of the\u00a0agriculture and livestock farming<\/strong>.<\/p>\n In the Cova de l'Or, material elements have been found that bear witness to the importance of the occupation in the\u00a0Early Neolithic (5500-5000 B.C.)<\/strong>The enclave was an ideal place for habitation. It is to this historical period that the\u00a0wheat and barley seed accumulations<\/strong>The pottery is also found in the interior, as well as the ceramics printed with shells, especially those decorated with human figures with their arms raised, alone in a praying position or in a group evoking a dance.<\/p>\n The symbolism of this pottery is defined within the movable aspect of the\u00a0Macroschematic Art<\/strong>This links the cave to the Rock Art sanctuaries of that chronology, such as La Sarga (Alcoy) or Pla de Petracos (Castell de Castells), and the Cova de l'Or may have been part of some kind of ritual cycle linked to these meeting and gathering places.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" El yacimiento museo de sitio de la Cova de l\u00b4Or y su Centro de [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":48318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kia_subtitle":"Su reapertura est\u00e1 prevista para mediados del mes de marzo","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sin-categoria"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marqalicante-admin.qwair.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marqalicante-admin.qwair.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marqalicante-admin.qwair.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marqalicante-admin.qwair.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marqalicante-admin.qwair.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/marqalicante-admin.qwair.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48321,"href":"https:\/\/marqalicante-admin.qwair.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48317\/revisions\/48321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marqalicante-admin.qwair.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marqalicante-admin.qwair.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marqalicante-admin.qwair.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marqalicante-admin.qwair.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}