Yacimiento de Alberite
The Dolmen Area of Alberite was discovered in 1997, in the plain of Villamartin, 4 km.
from
the town in the farmstead named the same, at the doors of the Grazalema
Natural Park.
Included in the Archaeological Route of the white villages of the Cadiz Range,
it occupies the central point of it, with Carissa Aurelia (Espera) and the Aznar Range (Arcos)
to the West,
and
with Iptuci (Prado del Rey) and Ocurri (Ubrique) to the SE.
It is situated in the SW of the town, coming in from the A-382, and A-373 Villamartin-Ubrique
by
the Rural Cooperative.
To date 5 further Dolmen have been discovered in this extensive megalithic necropolis,
however
only one of them has been excavated.
With more than 6,000 years old , it is one of the most ancients in Spain and European Occident.
Consists of a covered gallery 20 m. in length, formed of big lateral and superior stones masses,
engraved with pictures of human being, animals, arms,. .of out-lined characters.
Inside
all it was in red, increasing its holly nature.
The carrying of these enormous stones 6 km. from the Dolmen Area
( Las Animas Port or Margarita Range)
need
a big collective effort, that suggest us tribal structures of Family Group.
This Dolmen Area was directly tied to Neolithic hamlets and villages lined up in the actual
countryside
of Arcos and Plain of Villamartín
In the Local Archaeological Museum one can observe some pieces from the funeral furnishing,
arms and diverse artifacts founded in the diggings that show us the main
activities of an agronomical society
settled
on the beds of the Guadalete River in the 4th. Millennium B.C
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