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The Las Herrizas site is located to the south of the municipality of Alcal\u00e1 de los Gazules in the province of C\u00e1diz, Spain. This settlement is organised around a soft rock outcrop, on which a semi-rupestral habitat was established. The site was probably occupied between the Archaic and late Republican periods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Direction
Bartolom\u00e9 Mora Serrano<\/strong>\u00a0
(Universidad de M\u00e1laga)
Pierre Moret<\/strong>\u00a0(UMR 5608 \u2013 TRACES)<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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How Eveha International Participates
<\/strong>Study of pottery and amphora Collaboration on scientific publications<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Localisation<\/strong>
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Location and historical summary<\/strong>
The Las Herrizas site overlooks the R\u00edo Barbate reservoir in the south of the municipality of Alcal\u00e1 de los Gazules in C\u00e1diz. Due to its difficult access, it remained almost totally unknown until the project was launched in 2024. It was soon compared with the Bailo oppidum (La Silla del Papa, Tarifa), which is located 30 km further south on the Strait of Gibraltar coast. In both cases, settlement was organised around a linear outcrop of soft rock, with a semi-rupestrian habitat anchored to it. Secondly, both settlements reached their apogee during the Republican period (2nd and 1st centuries BC) and were abandoned during the Augustan era. With a surface area of no more than one and a half hectares, Las Herrizas was a secondary settlement that most likely belonged to the territory of the city of Lascuta. A third similarity is that Lascuta, like Bailo, was part of a small group of cities that minted \u201cLibyan-Phoenician\u201d coins with bilingual Latin and Neo-Punic legends during the Republican period.

History of research<\/strong>
The Las Herrizas site was discovered by a Swiss traveller in the late 1950s, after which it fell into oblivion for over half a century. Pedestrian surveys carried out in October 2024 confirmed the site\u2019s potential when a rich ceramic assemblage (fine ceramics and amphorae) was discovered. This material enabled us to establish the first chronological milestones of the site\u2019s occupation, spanning from the 1st Iron Age to the Augustan period. A second operation involving geophysical prospecting was carried out in June 2025. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Partners<\/strong>
Casa de Vel\u00e1zquez
UMR 5608, Traces (CNRS \u2013 Universit\u00e9 Toulouse Jean\u2011Jaur\u00e8s)
Universidad de M\u00e1laga
Universidad de C\u00e1diz<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Links<\/strong> :
Casa de Vel\u00e1zquez excavations<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The excavation campaigns (by year)<\/h2>\n\n\n