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The center spread of the underwater archaeological site under the hood, along with island Grossa opened this morning at La Manga by the mayor of San Javier, Pepa García, President of the Spanish Association of Friends of the Underwater Archaeology, Alberto Álvarez and coordinator of field work, Juan Pinedo, organize training sessions for practices for children with small surveys to two feet deep in the Mar Menor "in order to know the whole working process of an archaeological dig" .
The activity designed for children and young people between 10 and 15 years were held during the mornings of Saturday and Sunday in August with groups of about 10 children accompanied by three archaeologists monitors.
In the area of the beach area will play pieces including a reservoir with children was later discovered and treated water using the process that the team of archaeologists made in the Bajo de la Campana with a large Phoenician ship and a huge shipment dated in the year 620 BC
To publicize the work done by this international team of 17 archaeologists every day during June, July and August four years ago, is the purpose of dissemination center to open in Galleries Los Flamencos (behind El Souk) , in La Manga all weekdays between 18:00 and 22:00 h.
The center sponsored by the Spanish Association of Friends of the Underwater Archaeology in collaboration with the municipality of San Javier shows large underwater photographs with informative texts and 3 screens with videos about the work of archaeologists.
A activities with children will join a series of conferences that offer their own archaeologists about the site "the most important discovery in the western Mediterranean," said the mayor of San Javier, Pepa Garcia, who emphasized that the goal of this initiative is " that residents and visitors are aware of this important find and learn a little more about the history of the area. "
Alberto Alvarez noted that the distribution center is intended to be "a meeting point between the company and archaeologists, with simultaneous exposure to dig itself" when the normal thing to do at age 10, lectures and activities intensify next year.
The Center will serve as the excavation, from June to August, so later this month will close its doors until June 2011.
The site discovered in La Manga focuses on a Phoenician ship about 20 meters long with 2,260-year-old, whose importance lies in the cargo carried and whose remains are being extracted for transfer to the National Archaeological Museum of Cartagena Arqua.
Among the cargo of the wreck is inscribed with elephant tusks, and many raw materials like tin ingots, copper and other minerals, plus a large collection of Phoenician pottery and other objects as a large stone pedestal, and a collection of materials funeral.
To see the remains removed will have to wait about 5 years, as calculated Juan Pinedo.
At the moment the team, and will end in August to continue the dig next year, giving an account of his work through the distribution center in La Manga.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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