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Advance the process to this archaeological site is inventoried by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and regional heritage of special protection.

The Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Autonomous Region of Murcia, through its Department of Fine Arts and Cultural Heritage, for administrative processing continues to declare a site of special cultural relevance to the archeological site of the Zobrina Cabezo , located in the municipality of Alguazas.

For this, the Directorate General responsible above, by notice published this Wednesday, December 22, in the Official Gazette of the Region of Murcia, has proceeded to the opening of the mandatory public reporting period established in 20 days, with what is already it would be closer to the head of the local Zobrina alguaceña be inventoried by the regional government of Murcia as a regional heritage protected.

In line with the above, the Councillor for Culture of the Consistory of Alguazas, Isabel Zamora, points out that "the head of the Zobrina is one of the richest remains of the earliest human settlements in Alguazas. Data from the Lower Paleolithic."

He also expressed his hope that together with the Torre del Obispo and the church of San Onofre, they already are, be declared of cultural interest.

Note that the head of the Lower Paleolithic Zobrina data configured as a site consisting of two rectangular strips of land located on a hill, a major source of flint, used by prehistoric man to remove material that manufacture all kinds of utensils for the butchering of animals, plants and edible fruits, as well as weapons for hunting and war.

This workshop outdoor flint, the head of the Zobrina, left axes, scrapers, knives, arrowheads, and zoomorphic figurines (some pieces are just outlined and some are very well-cut) and polished rocks that were decorated abstract type pictorial and schematic based on very fine lines (straight or curved).

Top of the Zobrina are added in the municipality of Alguazas other prehistoric sites for which the Department of Culture has also proposed the declaration of Cultural Interest, which are the Pilgrims Hill, a Neolithic settlement and cemetery dating from the 2,500 BC and located two and a half miles northwest of town, and the potter's field and Loma de la Presa, settlement Argaric households or dwellings located on a promontory near the banks of the Segura.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Alguazas