page_title: Muntanya Assolada
section_title: Archaeological interventions
hierarchical_section_title: Muntanya Assolada / Archaeological interventions
caption_attribution_description: Español: Recipiente cerámico
context_page_description: Muntanya Assolada is a Bronze Age settlement located on the right bank of the Xúquer river, in Spain, built on the top of a spur of the Corbera mountain range, dominating the river plain from a height of 227 metres above sea level. It is located in the municipality of Alzira, Valencia, Spain.
  Excavation campaigns began in 1978, under the direction of Bernat Martí Oliver, and continued until 1996, and work on the site was resumed in 2004. From the 1990s Rosa Enguix Alemany and María Jesús de Pedro joined the direction of the site. At present the excavated area covers 700 square metres and includes different structures, like a central street and rectangular departments on both sides; a wall of two meters wide that preserves almost three meters of height; occupancy soils and abandonment episodes; livestock stabling; and terracing of the slopes to expand its surface.
  At present the site is property of the Alzira City council, and the new beginning of the excavations by the Servei d'Investigació Prehistòrica has as objective the consolidation of the exhumed structures and its signposting for visitor access.
context_section_description: The excavations carried out by the Servei d'Investigació Prehistòrica began in 1978 and continued until 1996, resuming again from 2004. The area currently excavated covers more than 700 m² (7,500 sq ft) and corresponds to different room structures with anthropic deposits and evidences of the different activities developed there, such as occupation soils and abandonment episodes in which fire was detected, perhaps due to the combustion of materials accumulated by livestock stabling, and terracing of the slopes to gradually expand the surface of the village. In its upper part, can be seen a central street and departments on both sides. In one of them it has been documented a domestic oven for cooking bread or toasting cereals. And in the other, the entrance has stone steps.
  The site is surrounded by a wall that is almost two meters wide and stands three meters high (6.6 × 9.8 ft). It was built on a summit that has been terraced by solid stone and clay buildings arranged in slope, thus prolonging the settlement on the slope. The existence of different levels of occupation, documented by stratigraphy and remains, is corroborated by the remodeling of the structures, some of them quickly and intentionally filled to give way to new construction lines. However, it seems to indicate that it was inhabited continuously throughout the Bronze Age.
caption: Ceramic pottery
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