El origen del ambientalismo arqueológico en la obra pública española (I)la Arqueología Preventiva en el planeamiento de la Autovía A-92 Baza–Puerto Lumbreras (1988-1994)
- Antonio Ramos Millán 1
- Antonio Francisco Belmonte Sánchez 2
- Juan Carlos Aznar Pérez 3
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Universidad de Granada
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- 2 Director General de Sacyr Infraestructuras
- 3 Azuela Ecoformación y Turismo S. L.
ISSN: 1133-6609
Year of publication: 2023
Issue: 35
Pages: 163-188
Type: Article
More publications in: Antiquitas
Abstract
The archaeological research performed on Highway A-92 constitutes a case study concerning the foundations of European archaeological environmentalism. According to European environmental law, archaeological impact prevention is meant to avoid in origin, which implies the planning of construction projects. However, European Preventive Archaeology dodges this key environmental principle, inhibiting itself in the planning of projects. Instead of averting impact, its preventive refers equivocally to the contrary -that is, forecasting the impact and the consequent development of voluminous excavation seasons. The archaeology of A-92 Baza-Puerto Lumbreras brought about a substantive application of environmental regulations, highlighting this original vice of archaeological conservation whose adverse effects are currently the topic of international debate. In the case of Spain, Preventive Archaeology is nominal and draws upon Salvage Archaeology from archaeological emergency management. It is supplied by field archaeography, whose surveying underestimates the archaeological impact prediction, and, rather than environmental mitigation measures, its excavations continue to be mere deficient formalities.