Overview

• Excavation of Dolmen I at La Lentejuela uncovered an exceptionally preserved, 13‑metre megalithic tomb with multiple ossuaries and a complete in-situ record.
• Analyses confirm the presence of Sicilian amber and North African elephant ivory, indicating extensive exchange networks in the 3rd millennium BC.
• The grave goods include more than twenty arrowheads, large flint blades and a carved stone vessel documented within the intact interior.
• The team proposes, as a working hypothesis, that Valencina de la Concepción acted as a regional redistributive hub, with Los Millares as another power center, pending laboratory confirmation.
• The project now enters an analytical phase—thermoluminescence dating, bioarchaeology and material provenance studies—with additional excavations of nearby smaller tombs planned for 2026.