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A multidisciplinary study has been based on all information of archaeological sites and surveys since the nineteenth century, as well as some 300 public and private works and other surveys conducted by the researchers themselves, which have been applied technique Carbon 14 have documented and recreate the topographic evolution of the city and its immediate surroundings from 11,000 years ago.

The research project, called ARQUEOTOPOS, Carthago Nova: Surveying and planning a privileged Mediterranean city, is funded by the Ministry of Economy and Finance, through the Directorate General of Research Projects of National R + D + I and by ERDF.

The works are coordinated by Professor Sebastian Ramallo, and among its objectives is conducting a comprehensive study of the geoarchaoelogical, paleobotany developments and successive occupations and resources plot of Cartagena from the last glacial maximum to the present.

Yesterday the first results were presented at the auditorium of the Museo del Teatro Romano, after a working session in the morning in research rooms of the Museum, which involved all the research team composed of teachers UPCT the Universities of Murcia and Madrid, the Municipal Archaeological Museum and the Museum of the Roman Theatre, with the participation of guest professor Christophe Morhange.

D¿Aix-Marseille Université specialist geoarchaeology.

As explained by Professor Ramallo the results have been very satisfactory since it has managed to rebuild and display in a computer system of layers, the different configurations that the city had over centuries, and the area were initially emerged and then were washed by the sea and subsequently infilled by watercourses or by the action of man.

It has also been able to document the fauna in these periods and precisely determined through carbon 14, the antiquity of the remains taken from twenty polls, some more than 30 meters deep.

All this information will be published in upcoming conferences and publications, as Ramallo, who also noted the intention of the team to continue with new polls and surveys, this time on the waterfront of the city.

In addition to his scientific knowledge, the study will serve to explain visually tourist centers interpretation how was originally the place they chose to settle Punic and Roman;

or that, when planning new urban developments, meet soil quality by whether deposits or fillers.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena