Beaker barrows (not) for the dead: El Alto I &amp; III, Las Cuevas/El Morrón and La Perica (Soria, Spain)

Guerra, Manuel Ángel Rojo; Pena, Rafael Garrido; Lagrán, Íñigo García-Martínez de; Rodríguez, Cristina Tejedor

doi:10.15366/cupauam2014.40.002

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“…This pattern goes hand-in-hand with the hypothesis of the manipulation of relics (Liesau et al., 2014b; Woodward, 2002) and is clearly recognised in several Beaker-associated tumuli, such as the El Alto III barrow (Figure 1, no. 6) (Rojo et al., 2014: 33–34) or Los Tiesos I and El Morcuero (Figure 1, nos. 11 and 13) (Blanco-González, 2014a: 4–6).…”

Section: Depositional Stories In the Chalcolithic (C 3300–2200 Bc)mentioning

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Past fragments: From ceramics to social practices in later prehistoric Iberia

González

2015

Journal of Social Archaeology

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Sunken features backfilled with domestic refuse represent the prevailing depositional context-type in later prehistory worldwide. Despite being so, this evidence remains poorly understood and has only received sporadic attention, chiefly within Anglophone archaeologies. This paper focuses on ceramics from a suite of such intricate contexts (cut features, burials, settlements, barrows) from Iberia in a diachronic and comparative perspective, from the Early Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age (5500–1100 BC). A total of 10,800 potsherds were examined with a taphonomic and refitting protocol attentive to formation dynamics and tracking intentionality. Results suggest that most of the studied assemblages are unplanned by-products of social life. From the earliest pottery-using communities, habitual actions conditioned the eventual preservation of the extant archaeological record. Fragmentation and deposition were key social practices, ultimately representing enduring trans-cultural phenomena. This research challenges uncontested interpretive premises, namely the ‘reflectionist’ standpoint, and disproves consensual and undue concepts frequently used in mainstream accounts of later prehistory.

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Section: Depositional Stories In the Chalcolithic (C 3300–2200 Bc)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Past fragments: From ceramics to social practices in later prehistoric Iberia

González

2015

Journal of Social Archaeology

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Una aproximación cuantitativa al trabajo destinado a la arquitectura monumental en la Prehistoria reciente de la Meseta Norte española

García

2016

SPAL

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Resumen: La arquitectura monumental es una característica común a gran parte de las culturas prehistóricas y puede ser utilizada como un indicador apropiado para indagar en el tamaño del poder político responsable de su construcción. A través de la estimación del trabajo dedicado a los monumentos, que puede calcularse mediante la cuantificación de las construcciones identificadas en el registro arqueológico y la aplicación de coeficientes de transformación extraídos de la arqueología experimental o de observaciones etnográficas, se nos presenta una vía para medir esa capacidad de movilización. Con esta estrategia aquí analizamos el trabajo invertido en los monumentos neolíticos y calcolíticos de la Meseta Norte española como son megalitos, asentamientos fortificados y recintos de fosos. Nuestros cálculos nos han permitido identificar dos tendencias: a lo largo del tiempo hemos visto que el trabajo invertido por monumento aumentó exponencialmente y en cuanto al espacio hemos identificado que es en el centro-suroeste de la Meseta Norte donde se erigieron los monumentos en los que se invirtió una mayor cantidad de trabajo. La contextualización de esta variable junto con otros aspectos como demografía, especialización económica o desigualdades sociales nos muestra que este es un valioso indicador a tener en cuenta para la investigación arqueológica de los procesos de transformación cultural. Abstract:Most of the prehistoric cultures share the characteristic of having produced monumental architecture, which is a good indicator of the size of the polity responsible of its construction. The measurement of monuments' size and volumes could be used to estimate the quantity of work invested by using coefficients deduced from experimental archaeology or ethnographic observations. This is thought to be an appropriate way to calculate the political power behind labor mobilization. In this paper this strategy is applied to monuments of the Late Prehistoric Spanish Northern Meseta such as megalithic buildings, walled settlements and causewayed enclosures. The results offer two patterns. The work invested on monuments grew exponentially from the Early Neolithic to the Copper Age, and there were more work invested per monument on the central and southwestern Northern Meseta than on the northeastern part. The variable of work invested contextualized with other issues such as demography, economic specialization or social inequalities could be a good indicator to count for the archaeology of cultural transformation processes.

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Microhistorias de la Prehistoria Reciente en el interior de la Península Ibérica

González¹

2016

Trab. prehist.

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Beaker barrows (not) for the dead: El Alto I & III, Las Cuevas/El Morrón and La Perica (Soria, Spain)

Cited by 4 publications

References 3 publications

Past fragments: From ceramics to social practices in later prehistoric Iberia

Past fragments: From ceramics to social practices in later prehistoric Iberia

Una aproximación cuantitativa al trabajo destinado a la arquitectura monumental en la Prehistoria reciente de la Meseta Norte española

Microhistorias de la Prehistoria Reciente en el interior de la Península Ibérica

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