Las Cogotas

Las Cogotas is an archaeological site in Cardenosa municipality, province of Avila, Spain. The site was excavated by Galician archaeologist Juan Cabré in the 1920s [1]. It gives its name to two distinct archaeological cultures: Cogotas I, a pre-Celtic culture of the Late Bronze Age, and Cogotas II, a Celtic Iron Age culture [1]. The upper layer represents a classical settlement of the Vettones, an ancient people who inhabited the territory of modern provinces of Avila and Salamanca, as well as parts of Toledo, Zamora, Cáceres and Tras-os-Montes in Portugal [2].