When the property of the La Torre-La Janera farm, between the municipalities of Ayamonte and Villablanca (Huelva), decided in 2018 to cover its land, of no less than 600 hectares, with avocados, the Junta de Andalucía set a condition: conduct a survey first. The request was due to the suspicion that there could be archaeological material on those lands. So it was.
The owners agreed to investigate it and the result has left everyone speechless, since the largest number of menhirs concentrated in one space in the entire Peninsula has been found”, present in the place both individually and in linear or circular groups. (chromlech).
So specifies the scientific journal Trabajos de Prehistoria, of the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), which publishes a research by the University of Huelva, within the framework of the ‘Mega-Lithos’ project, in which Dr. José Antonio has participated Linares, Crown Blackberry Mill, Adara Lopez Lopez, Teodosio Donaire Romero, Juan Carlos Vera-Rodriguez and Primitive Good Ramirez.
The result of this project has been first to discover and then to verify the “unique in the Iberian Peninsula” relevance of the megalithic site, as specified in the magazine. According to the University of Huelva, this is the first scientific publication on this enclave. It is financed by the FEDER Program and the Junta de Andalucía and has been carried out in coordination and collaboration with the company Cota Cero GPH S.C.
Pending the chronological results obtained in the laboratory tests, it is estimated that the monuments with the first vertical stones and the rest of the megaliths of the enclave were erected from the Middle Neolithic to the Early Bronze, approximately from the middle of the V to the beginning of the II millennium BC, these ancestral spaces being reused in later periods.
