Canarian Government

The Cabildo de Fuerteventura, through the Ministry of culture and historical heritage and the General Directorate of Cultural heritage of the Canarian Government are collaborating on the development of a work plan aimed at inventorying and consider six possible archaeological sites distributed by Fuerteventura. Investigations started several months ago and will continue for several months more. Depending on the results that they are finding more detailed studies will be raised. Existed in the municipality of Betancuria punctual references sobe these potential deposits and they were collected on the archaeological map, but I needed to know if truly confirmed its archaeological potential. These studies are already has more accurate information of its existence. The surveys carried out so far be focus on structures associated with gambuesas, pens and housing by locating important material ceramic and lithic, that will have to be studied from now. Also housing structures are analyzed in detail and gambuesas, especially of face to the relationship with different uses or reuse throughout the centuries. The first performances on the sites studied in Betancuria related structures with uses of the Aboriginal time, even with likely directly related to the time of the first settlement work will be extended over the coming months in different reservoir potential of the municipal terms of Betancuria, Tuineje and Puerto del Rosario, which have been selected from the reports technicians who show your possible interest or the risk of deterioration by the action Erosive..