Materias Primas Y Objetos De Prestigio en Ajuares Funerarios Como Testimonios De Redes De Intercambio en El Horizonte Campaniforme

Liesau, Corina; Blasco, Concepción

doi:10.15366/cupauam2012.38.010

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“…Copper Age societies in central, southwestern, and southeastern Iberia (Liesau & Blasco, 2011;Rogerio-Candelera et al, 2013;Rodríguez et al, 2020). This is not surprising as it is well known that, in those periods, intense cinnabar use (like that of other "exotic" materials) correlated with the emergence of social complexity, which occurred largely in the southern half of Iberia, and especially along the valleys of the Guadalquivir and Guadiana Rivers.…”

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The use and abuse of cinnabar in Late Neolithic and Copper Age Iberia

Emslie

Silva

Valera

et al. 2021

Intl J of Osteoarchaeology

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The use and abuse of cinnabar in Late Neolithic and Copper Age Iberia

Emslie

Silva

Valera

et al. 2021

Intl J of Osteoarchaeology

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“…Seven Bell Beaker tombs have been studied to date, containing 17 inhumations. Cinnabar was used to cover the corpses in several burials (Garrido, Flores, & Herrero‐Corral, 2019; Liesau & Blasco, 2011–2012). The studied cinnabar was sampled at Pit burial 7 (U.Ex 455), a multiple burial in a deep pit with two phases (Garrido et al, 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Its funerary use, both in constructive elements and directly related to the inhumations, increases in collective burials during Late Neolithic (Bueno, Barroso, & Balbín, 2005; Emslie et al, 2015; Martín‐Gil, Martín‐Gil, Delibes‐de‐Castro, Zapatero Magdaleno, & Sarabia‐Herrero, 1995). Furthermore, it is also well documented in Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age individual burials, often associated with items and exotic materials that have been related with high social status, like gold, copper, ivory, or amber (Liesau & Blasco, 2011–2012; Murillo‐Barroso, Costa Caramé, Díaz‐Guardamino Uribe, García Sanjuán, & Mora Molina, 2015). In addition, iron oxides have also appeared in red pigments, on their own or mixed with cinnabar, in some burials of the later period (López Padilla et al, 2012; Rogerio‐Candelera et al, 2013).…”

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Cinnabar provenance of Chalcolithic red pigments in the Iberian Peninsula: A lead isotope study

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We report lead isotope data for cinnabar from three Chalcolithic settlements and several ore deposits in the Iberian Peninsula. Lead isotope ratios of cinnabar (vermilion) employed in one Bell Beaker grave at Humanejos (Madrid) plot in the field of the Almaden mining district. Cinnabar from the La Velilla dolmen (Palencia) also plots in the isotopic field of Almaden ores but is also comparable to the closer Miñera de Luna deposit in the Cantabrian Ranges. Cinnabar used in the dolmen of Montelirio (Seville) has an unknown origin, as its new lead isotope ratios obtained do not match with any of the studied ore deposits. We conclude that cinnabar was a well-known raw material and several ore deposits were mined in the Iberian Peninsula during the Chalcolithic. The societies established at the northern and central parts of the peninsula employed locally sourced cinnabar (<200 km away) in their funerary rituals. The Chalcolithic society settled at the estuary of the Guadalquivir river (south of Spain) employed cinnabar of unknown origin, leaving open the possibility of long-distance cinnabar trade.

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“…2019, figs. 97, 98, 120, 129–36, 176), and other sites of central Iberia (Liesau and Blasco, 2011–12; Liesau et al . 2016, 15–16).…”

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Atlantic Halberds as Bell Beaker Weapons in Iberia: Tomb 1 of Humanejos (Parla, Madrid, Spain)

Garrido‐Pena

Fernández

Herrero-Corral

et al. 2022

Oxford J Archaeology

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Summary The recent discovery of an Atlantic halberd among other abundant and rich grave goods in the Bell Beaker double tomb 1 of Humanejos (Parla, Madrid) demonstrates that this type of weapon was part of the Beaker panoply. It is the first example of an Atlantic halberd in a Beaker burial context in Iberia and only the second one in Europe. The remaining halberds come from old and isolated finds in Early Bronze Age deposits that were usually interpreted as post‐Beaker votive deposits. In this paper the Humanejos halberd and its archaeological context (human remains, burial structure, radiocarbon dates) are carefully examined. The study includes the technical analysis of the halberd (metal composition, lead isotopes, use‐wear traces), together with the other metallic weapons and tools recovered with it (Palmela points, tanged dagger, awl) as well as the rest of the offerings (Beaker pottery, ivory and bone adornments). All these data suggest that this exceptionally rich grave could have held a woman and a man of the social elite, with the power to concentrate important amounts of precious raw materials (copper, gold, ivory, cinnabar) in few hands, especially when compared to other contemporary graves in the same site and region.

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Materias Primas Y Objetos De Prestigio en Ajuares Funerarios Como Testimonios De Redes De Intercambio en El Horizonte Campaniforme

Cited by 6 publications

References 15 publications

The use and abuse of cinnabar in Late Neolithic and Copper Age Iberia

The use and abuse of cinnabar in Late Neolithic and Copper Age Iberia

Cinnabar provenance of Chalcolithic red pigments in the Iberian Peninsula: A lead isotope study

Atlantic Halberds as Bell Beaker Weapons in Iberia: Tomb 1 of Humanejos (Parla, Madrid, Spain)

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