Luis Siret y Cels (26 August 1860, in

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– 7 June 1934, in Las Herrerías) was a Belgian- Spanish

archaeologist Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of Artifact (archaeology), artifacts, architecture, biofact (archaeology), biofacts or ecofacts, ...

and

illustrator An illustrator is an artist who specializes in enhancing writing or elucidating concepts by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text or idea. The illustration may be intended to clarify complicate ...

. 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 engineering is the extraction of minerals from the ground. It is associated with many other disciplines, such as mineral processing, exploration, excavation, geology, metallurgy, geotechnical engineering and surveying. A mining engineer m ...

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

Neolithic The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Ancient Greek, Greek 'new' and 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Mesopotamia, Asia, Europe and Africa (c. 10,000 BCE to c. 2,000 BCE). It saw the Neolithic Revo ...

Chalcolithic The Chalcolithic ( ) (also called the Copper Age and Eneolithic) was an archaeological period characterized by the increasing use of smelted copper. It followed the Neolithic and preceded the Bronze Age. It occurred at different periods in di ...

and

Bronze Age The Bronze Age () was a historical period characterised principally by the use of bronze tools and the development of complex urban societies, as well as the adoption of writing in some areas. The Bronze Age is the middle principal period of ...

sites in Almizaraque, Palacés, El Argar, El Gárcel 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

Palaeolithic The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic ( years ago) ( ), also called the Old Stone Age (), is a period in human prehistory that is distinguished by the original development of stone tools, and which represents almost the entire period of human prehist ...

Iron Age The Iron Age () is the final epoch of the three historical Metal Ages, after the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age. It has also been considered as the final age of the three-age division starting with prehistory (before recorded history) and progre ...

in the zone. Material which he collected was exhibited in 1889 Exposition universelle de Paris and 1929 Exposición Universal de Barcelona. Items are currently exhibited in the Museo Arqueológico Provincial de Almería, in the Museo arqueológico Nacional in Madrid, in the Musée du Cinquantenaire in Brussels and several other important collections including the

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in LondonBritish Museum Collection
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Ashmolean Museum The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology () on Beaumont Street in Oxford, England, is Britain's first public museum. Its first building was erected in 1678–1683 to house the cabinet of curiosities that Elias Ashmole gave to the University ...

in Oxford.

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 Belgian emigrants Immigrants to Spain {{Archaeologist-stub