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The Director of Fine Arts and Cultural Heritage, Enrique Ujaldón, said today that the best way to protect rock art is to encourage their knowledge. "
Ujaldón was speaking at the plenary meeting of Council Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula to be held today at the Archaeological Museum of Murcia and the region holds the secretariat.
The Ministry of Culture and Tourism, through the Directorate General of Fine Arts and Cultural Heritage, is undertaking a "major effort" in this sense, as highlighted Ujaldón, and the proof is the Center for the Study of Prehistory and Arts Rock located in the Museo Casa Cristo de Moratalla, "unique in the State picture" and develops his research in collaboration with the University of Murcia. "
In addition, the Directorate General of Fine Arts is supporting research projects relevant to the study of prehistory in the region of Murcia in collaboration with interdisciplinary teams of university environments both national and European.
In this line of research support, the Autonomous Community also finances projects outside of study of rock art.
One of the dissemination of this Centre of Studies is the journal Journal of Rock Art and Prehistory ', whose next edition will be dedicated exclusively to the acts of Congress Levantine Rock Art, held recently.
This year also will come out the book "Rock Art in the Region of Murcia."
As for conservation, the director of Fine Arts and Cultural Heritage explained that "we are making coats cleanups and improvements for some caves are visited."
The Murcia region is a reference criteria for protection of these assets, and has done well in places as unique as the abyss of the cave Serreta in Cieza, the wraps and the Calar Cañaícas Sabuco Source in Moratalla, or wraps del Pozo, in Calasparra.
In addition, work is in Moratalla for the opening, next to Casa Cristo, the recreation of a prehistoric village with an area of several acres "to facilitate the understanding of the lifestyles of early farming and ranching communities," said Ujaldón , who stressed that ultimately "it is to combine the protection, understanding and dissemination."
Council Rock Art
The Council Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian peninsula is composed of representatives of communities of Catalonia, Aragon, Castilla-La Mancha, Valencia, Andalusia and Murcia, regions that share the Declaration of World Heritage of UNESCO.
It also has among its members renowned specialists.
Among its tasks is monitoring the implementation of the proposed Declaration on World Heritage and updating the inventory of rock art sites in the territory of that proposal.
It also proposes intervention models in terms of documentation, protection, restoration, preservation, marking and distribution of rock art.
Source: CARM
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