Archaeology

The Sant Agustí Vell Archaeological Project has begun a new five-year project that has been presented today, December 20, in the same Talayotic settlement of Sant Agustí. The co-directors of the project have presented the progress of this first campaign focused on completing the excavation of the room attached to the South Building of the Talaiot of Ses Bigues de Mata. 

During the first three weeks of October, a new archaeological campaign was carried out at the navetas settlement of Es Coll de cala Morell, focusing on the excavation of the so-called Alberca Sur (South Tank). This artificial depression is part of a unique hydraulic structure in Balearic prehistory, formed by a set of two tanks for collecting rainwater located in the centre of the promontory.

This excavation, that has never been carried out before in Menorca, allows to document what rural life was like for the Christian repopulators of the island after the conquest of 1287.

This Bronze Age copper mine is one of the few mining sites of its kind in southern Europe. Menorca's prehistoric communities extracted copper ores from the mine for about 900 years.

In addition to these remains, which have not yet been dated, the Amics del Museu de Menorca team has found a very interesting set of indigenous and Punic Ebusitan crockery. A visiting day is scheduled for July 20 at 7.30 pm to explain the preliminary results of this intervention to the public.

This is the first direct evidence found in humans in Europe, based on hair analysis discovered in this Naviform period burial cave. Photo: P. Witte

It is the first time that this event, framed in the Talayotic Menorca period, has been documented. The study was conducted at the shrine of the Western taula in the settlement of So na Caçana (Alaior). Photo: Foto: Antoni Cladera / Photopills

Social complexification and processes of change in the 1st millennium BCE. An analysis of Menorcan society based on the funerary record is the title of the thesis recently presented by historian and archaeologist Sonia Carbonell at the University of Alicante.

This year the field season focused on the exterior of the western building in the western sector of the settlement, serving to gather new archaeological data and improve visitor conditions at the site.

Article by the Entre Illes team about the news of the last excavation campaign at Coll de Cala Morell, carried out in October 2022.

The Menorca Heritage Recovery association today completes its fieldwork in the central zone of the Torre d´en Galmés archaeological site, and presents the preliminary results.

In under three weeks, the archaeologists removed 50 tonnes of stone from the "post-mediaeval" building in Torralba d'en Salort. On August 22 there will be a guided tour with the archaeologists team that has recently worked on the site, and explanation of the 2022 campaign.