Also known as Casas del Turuñuelo
thumb|Face found in the site in 2023. It features earrings characteristic of the Tartessian goldsmith work. El Turuñuelo, also called Casas del Turuñuelo and El Turuñuelo de Guareña, is an archaeological site in Guareña, province of Badajoz, Spain. It corresponds to the late Tartessian culture developed in the Middle Guadiana Valley in the southwestern Iberian Peninsula in the 5th century BCE after the downfall of the Tartessian archaeological culture's main core around the Guadalquivir valley by the end of the 6th century BCE. It consists of a huge 2,500-year-old two-floor building which was
thumb|Face found in the site in 2023. It features earrings characteristic of the Tartessian goldsmith work. El Turuñuelo, also called Casas del Turuñuelo and El Turuñuelo de Guareña, is an archaeological site in Guareña, province of Badajoz, Spain. It corresponds to the late Tartessian culture developed in the Middle Guadiana Valley in the southwestern Iberian Peninsula in the 5th century BCE after the downfall of the Tartessian archaeological culture's main core around the Guadalquivir valley by the end of the 6th century BCE. It consists of a huge 2,500-year-old two-floor building which was ritually set on fire and buried after a hecatomb-like ceremony was performed.
The mound under which the building is located was already known since the 1980s. The earliest digging works began in 2015. As of 2021, there were another 12 similar structures identified in the region, of which only two, Cancho Roano (Zalamea de la Serena) and (Campanario) had been excavated. The site was declared bien de interés cultural in May 2022.
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).