Presentación de resultados de excavación en Rosa de Abajo, Fuerteventura

The talk will take place on April 24th, at 7:30 pm, at the Insular General Archive

Cultural Heritage of the Cabildo de Fuerteventura will present the results of the archaeological excavation carried out at the Rosa de Abajo site, located in El Matorral, in the municipality of Puerto del Rosario.

The talk ‘The Burial of El Matorral. Results of the archaeological excavation’ will take place at 7:30 pm at the Insular General Archive of Fuerteventura. The conference will be given by the forensic archaeologist of the company Tibicena Arqueología y Patrimonio SL, Verónica Alberto Barroso.

The chance discovery in the 1980s of human bone remains and subsequent survey of the area by different specialists indicated the possible existence of an aboriginal burial at the Rosa de Abajo site in El Matorral. In order to clarify the cultural significance of this site and ensure the conservation of this archaeological material, the Department of Cultural Heritage, led by Rayco León, promoted the study of the site in 2024, which has offered results of great interest for the understanding of the aboriginal settlement of Fuerteventura.

Site

In 1988, citizen Pedro López fortuitously found human bone remains on the surface in the area known as Rosa de Abajo in El Matorral. Once reported to the competent authorities and to the team then conducting the archaeological survey of Fuerteventura, the area was registered as an archaeological site and the bone remains were deposited in the Insular Archaeological Museum.

The site was thus recorded and included in the Archaeological Inventory of Fuerteventura.

In 2020, a project was carried out for the archaeological survey of Funerary Sites in Fuerteventura, in which the site was described and samples of human bones were taken, which once analyzed provided valuable information for the understanding of the aboriginal burials on the island.

In 2024, the Cultural Heritage service promoted the conduct of an archaeological investigation at the site by the Tibicena. Arqueología y Patrimonio company, in order to clarify if the bone remains found truly correspond to a burial with cultural value and, with the available information, proceed to the adoption of appropriate measures for its protection.