Distinguished works on the excavation in Fuente Álamo (1977–1999) have been published as „Fuente Álamo Part 1 to 4“. These were concerned with the course of the excavation, the settlement and its stratigraphy, its graves as well as findings of stone artefacts and earthenware vessels. The work at hand, the fifth part of the sequence of monographs on Fuente Álamo, is concerned with the partial excavation on the steep southern slope of the hilltop settlement. It touches upon the exemplarily documented stratigraphic excavation in the difficult setting on the slope, the remains of houses and graves found there – one of which was richly adorned with silver ornamentation – as well as the corresponding findings and their relative as well as absolute dating. The supervision of the excavation on the southern slope rested in the experienced hands of Volker Pingel from its beginnings in 1988 up until its premature ending in 1999. After his untimely death in 2005 the important results of this excavation had to be revised and prepared for publication. Pingels colleague Hermanfrid Schubart concluded this task in 2008; it is being presented in the volume at hand.

Zum sechzigjährigen Jubiläum der Grabung werden auch die Kleinfunde vorgelegt, in Text und Abbildungen. Obwohl zumeist beschädigt, geben sie aufschlussreiche Informationen über die Geschichte des Municipiums, von der Steinzeit bis zum Mittelalter. Sie erlauben Einblicke in die Lebensgewohnheiten und die Kulttraditionen, in Handwerk und Hausbau, dazu in die Wirtschaftsgrundlagen durch Metallgewinnung, mit Analysen der Produkte und Handelsbeziehungen. Auch der Grad der Romanisierung sowie des Festhaltens an einheimischen Traditionen spiegelt sich in den Kleinfunden