microrobert
12-13-2011, 04:55 AM
Economy crisis saves Spanish ruins but buries future
Spain's pre-historic burial chambers have survived invasion, war, a long dictatorship and a property bubble which paved over vast tracts of the country.
But the economic crisis which ended the building boom that buried some of the country's greatest archaeological treasures under shopping malls and new housing may also be bad news for those hoping to provide lasting safeguards for Spain's remaining tholos dolmens or passage tombs.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/12/us-spain-archaeology-dolmen-idUSTRE7BB16420111212
Spain's pre-historic burial chambers have survived invasion, war, a long dictatorship and a property bubble which paved over vast tracts of the country.
But the economic crisis which ended the building boom that buried some of the country's greatest archaeological treasures under shopping malls and new housing may also be bad news for those hoping to provide lasting safeguards for Spain's remaining tholos dolmens or passage tombs.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/12/us-spain-archaeology-dolmen-idUSTRE7BB16420111212