Luis Siret y Cels (26 August 1860, in Sint-Niklaas – 7 June 1934, in

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) was a Belgian- Spanish

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and

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. He was born in

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, but when he was 21 he went to Cuevas del Almanzora (

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) when he was contracted as a

Mining Engineer Mining in the engineering discipline is the extraction of minerals from underneath, open pit, above or on the ground. Mining engineering is associated with many other disciplines, such as mineral processing, exploration, excavation, geology, a ...

in the Sierra Almagrera. Through 50 years, Luis Siret and his brother Henri Siret investigated

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and

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sites in Almizaraque, Palacés, El Argar,

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or Los Millares. His discoveries meant a great advance in the prehistory of the South-eastern

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and helped settle the sequence from

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in the zone. Material which he collected was exhibited in 1889

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and 1929

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. Items are currently exhibited in the Museo Arqueológico Provincial de Almería, in the Museo arqueológico Nacional in Madrid, in the

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in Brussels and several other important collections including the

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in LondonBritish Museum Collection
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References

Bibliography

*Herguido, Carlos, (1994), Apuntes y documentos sobre Enrique y Luis Siret, ingenieros y arqueólogos. Instituto de Estudios Almerienses y Ayuntamiento de Cuevas del Almanzora, Almería. *Herguido, Carlos (ERRATA): http://1drv.ms/1q0FWNb *Siret, Luis y Enrique (2006), Las Primeras Edades del Metal en el Sudeste de España (Facsímil ed.), Museo Arqueológico de Murcia, Murcia, España, MU-584-2006 de julio de 2007

External links

Arqueomurcia.com - Tu portal de Arqueología en la Región de Murcia
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Patrimur.com - El portal de Patrimonio de la Región de Murcia
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Biografía
1860 births 1934 deaths Belgian archaeologists 19th-century Spanish archaeologists 20th-century Spanish archaeologists People from Sint-Niklaas {{Archaeologist-stub