The paleontological and archaeological museum “Ildefonso Recio Valverde” (Totanés, Toledo). A new area for understanding our past

  1. Íñigo Vitón 1
  2. Miguel Ángel Cervilla-Muros 1
  3. Víctor Morenos 1
  4. Elena Gutiérrez Sánchez 2
  5. Ángela Fraguas 1
  1. 1 Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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    Universidad Complutense de Madrid

    Madrid, España

    ROR 02p0gd045

  2. 2 Museo Paleontológico y Arqueológico “Ildefonso Recio Valverde”
Journal:
Spanish journal of palaeontology

ISSN: 2255-0550

Year of publication: 2019

Volume: 34

Issue: 1

Pages: 131-137

Type: Article

DOI: 10.7203/SJP.34.1.15254 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR

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Abstract

The Palaeontological and Archaeological Museum “Ildefonso Recio Valverde” was recently opened in Totanés (Toledo). The material included in this museum mostly belonged to the personal collection of I. Recio, who donated it to this municipality to contribute to the dissemination of Palaeontology and Archaeology. Its creation, and the even more recent discovery of a Neolithic cromlech in its vicinity, provides this small village with great potential to become a centre for heritage tourism and scientific outreach. This paper presents the process of arranging the museum and cataloguing the paleontological collection, as well as outlining its value as a local museum

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Funding information

We would like to thank the mayor of Totan?s, I. Guti?rrez, for making this project possible, to Carlos Recio, son of I. Recio, for the donations made to the museum and the biographic information about his father, to Dr. Mar?a Jos? Comas-Rengifo, ex-president of the SEP and professor of the UCM for her presence at the inauguration and for the revision of the manuscript, to Dr. Mar?a Luisa Canales and Dr. Paloma Sevilla (UCM) for facilitating the agreement procedures to realize the internships at the PAM-IRV and for their support during them, to Dr. Juan Carlos Guti?rrez-Marco, for his help with the taxonomic identification, to Dr. Esperanza Fern?ndez for her comments on the manuscript, to Carlos Alonso Recio for his advices and help in image editing, to Dr. Sietske Batenburg for improving the English of the manuscript, and to Dr. Ana Rodrigo and Dr. Margarita Belinch?n for their useful and constructive reviews.

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