entity · site_iberia1_motilla_del_azuer
Motilla del Azuer
fortified wetland settlement with well
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
2200 BCE–1350 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · provides archaeological observation
Water control and cereal management on the Bronze Age Iberian Peninsula: La motilla del Azuer — Gonzalo Aranda, Sergio Fernández, Martín Haro, Francisco Molina, Trinidad Nájera, Margarita Sánchez (2008)Provides the excavated water and cereal evidence.
Locator: pp. 241–259 - informs · locates
Motilla del Azuer — Ayuntamiento de Daimiel and Museo Comarcal de DaimielProvides modern orientation and public chronology.
Locator: official site description and map
Research description
Monumental La Mancha motilla with a deep well, storage and settlement areas. It is evidence for local water and subsistence management, not automatically a capital or universal model for all motillas.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Groundwater-management evidence
Direct archaeological and hydrogeological evidence for accessing or controlling groundwater.
Why does this record have this property?
Hydraulic management is directly supported by archaeology and hydrogeology.
- The first uses of groundwater in the Iberian Peninsula. The Daimiel “motillas” in the Bronze Age of La Mancha
supports assignment and caveat · pp. 455–474
Fortified or enclosed settlement evidence
Excavated or securely documented defensive or enclosing architecture.
Why does this record have this property?
Architecture is secure; state-level control is not implied.
- Water control and cereal management on the Bronze Age Iberian Peninsula: La motilla del Azuer
supports assignment and caveat · pp. 241–259
Evidence and sources
- supports · provides archaeological observation
Water control and cereal management on the Bronze Age Iberian Peninsula: La motilla del Azuer — Gonzalo Aranda, Sergio Fernández, Martín Haro, Francisco Molina, Trinidad Nájera, Margarita Sánchez (2008)Provides the excavated water and cereal evidence.
Locator: pp. 241–259 - supports · locates
Motilla del Azuer — Ayuntamiento de Daimiel and Museo Comarcal de DaimielProvides modern orientation and public chronology.
Locator: official site description and map
Referenced records
- La Mancha and Meseta interaction frame · entity
- Geography assertion for site_iberia1_motilla_del_azuer · geography assertion