Municipal Archaeological Museum

The Municipal Archaeological Museum of Zuheros was inaugurated on August 14, 1992. It displays archaeological remains from the excavations of the cave carried out during the years 1991-1992, as well as other remains from sites located in the municipality. The first display case is dedicated to the Middle Paleolithic where we can see quite rudimentary lithic tools attributable to the Neanderthal homo. Here we can see a spearhead and a raedera. The second one begins the Neolithic and is dedicated to the almagra pottery, very well represented in the site of the Cueva de los Murciélagos. The following showcases display ceramic remains of the "incised pottery" and "impressed pottery" types. Both were made with sharp objects, punches. The former by making small superficial marks "incisions" in the wet paste and the latter by pressing with different objects. Another display case contains Neolithic tools such as awls and tubes made with bone and flint blades. There are also some ornaments such as bracelets made of marble and necklaces made with shells from the coast of Malaga. In the next one there are some bones of animals that they had domesticated and some representation of the cereals that they cultivated, like the escaña, autochthonous crop of the subbetica, in addition to human bony remains. In the adjoining display, remains from the Chalcolithic or Copper Age and the Bronze Age can be seen. Here some remains of pottery made of copper and a tulip made of bronze can be seen. And in the last one it emphasizes material belonging to the Roman Age. Here we find fragments of skylights, metal nails, rings, bone dice and coins that indicate that the cave was occupied during the lower empire. On the other hand, we find a togado from the Roman period, a white limestone sarcophagus found in 1985 in the Zuheros area, a capital from the castle-palace and a quicialera, the latter belonging to the Muslim period. Rates and schedules