![]() ![]() They created an online petition to save the monument, which has attracted more than 44,000 signatures. This led a group of residents from Peraleda de la Mata, the town where the monument is located, to urge the Spanish government to move the rocks to a safer place to be preserved and studied. After decades underwater, the porous granite stones have started to erode some have cracked and others have even fallen over. With no surveillance around the dolmen, visitors were left free to touch and potentially damage the megaliths. Its appearance attracted tourists and brought up some concerns. The tips of the tallest stones would sometimes appear as the water levels went down in the summer, but the 2019 drought was the first time the “treasure of Guadalperal” – as the dolmen is commonly referred to – became fully visible in almost 60 years. The megalithic tombs were submerged in the process. ![]() ![]() Three years later, the area was flooded by the construction of the Valdecañas Reservoir, a project to bring water and electricity to less developed parts of the region. His studies, however, were not published until 1960. In the 1920s, German researcher Hugo Obermaier led an excavation of the site and took some items to be studied and exhibited in Berlin. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |