Yacimiento arqueológico de La Ribera de la Algaida-Turaniana
Archaeological site · Granada
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The site was found in 1859 and is still being excavated more than a century and a half on. Twenty to thirty hectares of ground at Aguadulce hold one of the longest continuous human occupations recorded anywhere in Almería.
Occupation here runs unbroken for more than five thousand years, from Copper Age pottery fragments through the Argaric Bronze Age to a Roman fishing settlement and, later, an Islamic-period village. Roman Turaniana lived off fishing, salt-curing and trade: excavations have turned up salting pools, ovens, house walls with painted stucco, column shafts and a necropolis. Arab-period geographers knew the settlement as Al-Binyans, a fishing village recorded by the 11th-century writer al-Udri. Excavations continue: a 2021 dig uncovered further fish-salting deposits, confirming how central the sea remained to every era of the site's life.
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