Ringraziamenti: Questo lavoro è stato realizzato grazie alla Borsa Post-dottorale concessa a Lili... more Ringraziamenti: Questo lavoro è stato realizzato grazie alla Borsa Post-dottorale concessa a Liliana Spanedda dall’Università di Granada per svolgere una ricerca diretta dal Prof. Alberto Moravetti del Dipartimento di Storia della Università degli Studi di Sassari nel periodo compreso tra novembre del 2007 e ottobre del 2009.Per questo studio è stata elaborata una metodologia che consente di mettere in luce le diversità esistenti, in termini quantitativi, nell’impianto planimetrico delle camere dei nuraghi, cercando di capire se le principali differenze tra questi e i protonuraghi siano solo a livello formale e architettonico o rispondano a diverse funzioni e strategie costruttive elaborate per far fronte alle nuove esigenze di una società in continua evoluzione. Sono state analizzate le camere, talvolta sovrapposte, del mastio e delle diverse torri che formano i complessi nuragici misurando l’area esterna e interna (considerando tutto lo spazio utile) e il loro perimetro esterno e ...
Durante l’età del Bronzo l’accesso ai “monumenti” fu limitato, sia per quanto riguarda i nuraghi ... more Durante l’età del Bronzo l’accesso ai “monumenti” fu limitato, sia per quanto riguarda i nuraghi sia per i centri cultuali che li succedettero. Le offerte che si rinvengono, ancora con la loro dimensione sacra, sono il risultato e l’espressione di una società gerarchica giustificata dalla “religione” e guidata dalla “ideologia guerriera”.During the Bronze Age access to “monuments” was restricted, both in regard to the earlier nuraghi and to the later religious centers. The offerings that can be recovered from these last sites, even with their sacred meanings, are the result and expression of a hierarchical society, justified by “religion” and driven by a “warrior ideology”.Durante la Edad del Bronce el acceso a los monumentos fue limitado, sea en lo que respecta a los nuraghi sea en lo que se refiere a los centros cultuales que les sucedieron. Las ofrendas que se encuentran, incluso en su dimensión sagrada, son el resultado y la expresión de una sociedad jerárquica justificada desde...
This collection of papers investigates the similarities between the megalithic and hypogean monum... more This collection of papers investigates the similarities between the megalithic and hypogean monuments of western Mediterranean Europe. The two monument types are also analysed in terms of their territorial symbolism, and their realtionship with settlement patterns, as well as their chronology and development, and their ritual and social functions.
En este trabajo se realiza una aproximación al patrón de asentamiento durante la Edad del Bronce ... more En este trabajo se realiza una aproximación al patrón de asentamiento durante la Edad del Bronce en el municipio de Dorgali a partir de tres análisis que utilizan diferentes índices relacionados con el emplazamiento de los yacimientos de hábitat: nuraghi y poblados. El tratamiento estadístico de los índices con técnicas estadísticas multivariantes ha permitido obtener diversas clasificaciones que muestran las diferencias entre los asentamientos. El estudio de estas diferencias ha permitido obtener resultados que confirman algunas de las hipótesis de partida con yacimientos siempre en lugares estratégicos pero diferenciados por su énfasis en el control global del territorio y, por tanto, de otros asentamientos, o en el control del territorio de producción inmediato. El sistema además tiene origen en momentos antiguos de la Edad del Bronce como muestran las diferencias entre los protonuraghi.In this paper an approach to Dorgali territory Bronze Age settlement pattern is made by starti...
Recientes investigaciones en el yacimiento calcolítico de Los Millares, Santa Fe de Mondújar, Alm... more Recientes investigaciones en el yacimiento calcolítico de Los Millares, Santa Fe de Mondújar, Almería, han permitido reconocer diferentes representaciones figurativas asociadas a la muralla más exterior o Muralla I, construida en torno a 2900 cal AC. La erección de esta muralla supuso una importante ampliación del poblado al ocupar zonas anteriormente destinadas a necrópolis. Se propone que algunos elementos pertenecientes al área de necrópolis fueron respetados y reutilizados para justificar, a través de los ancestros, la capacidad de acceder al asentamiento a través de la puerta principal –con la estatua-menhir situada junto a esta–, la exclusión de aquellos no vinculados –con todas las representaciones en ambos extremos de la muralla–, la integración de nuevas poblaciones –con la Tumba 63 incluida en el trazado de la muralla–, el rol de determinados personajes –con la estatua-menhir y la estela de la Tumba 63– y, en definitiva, los derechos a ocupar y explotar un territorio. Se ...
Nuragic culture traditional interpretation had stated the inland character of settlement. However... more Nuragic culture traditional interpretation had stated the inland character of settlement. However this model has been threatened by certain finds as bronze votive navicelle, diffusion of several items as mycenean pottery, and the coastal situation of numerous nuraghi, mainly at Nurra region and Orosei Gulf. Analysis of this eastern coastal zone is done here in relation to the importance not only of the first seaside, with settlements close to sea and other sites placed over the cliffs, but also of the ways which lead to the inland where new control sites are located.
A set of radiocarbon dates got from animal bone samples of Polideportivo de Martos site are prese... more A set of radiocarbon dates got from animal bone samples of Polideportivo de Martos site are presented in this paper. On one hand these dates were made in order to show continuity in the occupation of the site during the Late Neolithic, on the other hand to get the first dates on ritual contexts in the Upper Guadalquivir, and finally, get an independent evaluation of the occupation phases proposed for it. A statistical analysis of the dates’ tendencies has been used for this aim. Although some of the analyses carried out suggest that the periodization previously provided can be considered valid, obtained data implies that, in terms of space transformation, only two great moments can be distinguished, before and after 3000 cal BC. Although this new chronological frame is more recent than previous one, settlement continuity during a long period still can be maintained.
espanolCon motivo de la conmemoracion del centenario del hallazgo de los primeros vestigios de ar... more espanolCon motivo de la conmemoracion del centenario del hallazgo de los primeros vestigios de arte rupestre por parte de Hugo Obermaier en Sierra Harana queremos rendirle homenaje con este articulo. Se muestra como Sierra Harana siempre ha sido un area de interes para los arqueologos especializados en diversos periodos, aunque la investigacion haya sido discontinua, y como existe una cierta continuidad en el poblamiento de la zona, aun estando situada bastante por encima de las areas mas llanas de la Vega de Granada. Se han podido apreciar estrategias similares en lo que se refi ere a la disposicion de los asentamientos y otros yacimientos destinados al control incluso entre la Prehistoria Antigua y la Reciente, aunque las tipologias de estos y los intereses economicos fueran distintos. De hecho los abrigos con pintura rupestre fueron utilizados como marcadores de las vias de desplazamiento utilizadas por los agricultores con sus rebanos mientras anteriormente desde ciertas cuevas ...
italianoLa investigacion que aqui se presenta intenta estudiar las caracteristicas demogra?casdel... more italianoLa investigacion que aqui se presenta intenta estudiar las caracteristicas demogra?casdel sistema de asentamiento nuragico en dos secciones de las regiones historicas sardas deGallura y Dorgali. El estudio del emplazamiento a partir de los datos procedentes de lasactividades arqueologicas sobre la extension de los yacimientos y las facilidades que undeterminado entorno inmediato ofrece para el asentamiento a partir del calculo de las areasque presentan mayores facilidades para la circulacion (Cost Surface Analysis), asi como lade?nicion de las caracteristicas edafologicas nos han permitido valorar la poblacion y algunascaracteristicas de la ubicacion de los asentamientos. Se han valorado tambien los datos sobrela potencialidad eda?ca en las distintas areas con los problemas para mantener una poblacionamplia en ciertas zonas a partir solo de la explotacion agropecuaria, la complejidad y extensionde los yacimientos, la articulacion de las vias de comunicacion con los territori...
Notizie & Scavi della Sardegna Nuragica. Abstract Book of I Regional Conference (Serri, 20-22 ap... more Notizie & Scavi della Sardegna Nuragica. Abstract Book of I Regional Conference (Serri, 20-22 aprile 2017) Oral contributions Notizie & Scavi della Sardegna Nuragica. Abstract Book del I Congresso Regionale (Serri, 20-22 aprile 2017) Comunicazioni
The domus de janas are the typical rock-cut tombs of Sardinian Late Prehistory. Many of them are ... more The domus de janas are the typical rock-cut tombs of Sardinian Late Prehistory. Many of them are decorated. Motifs are made with different techniques: painting, sculpture and incision. Architectural elements, busts, cattle and sheep, and horn-shaped features are represented. Painting is generally used to decorate the ceilings, the jambs of doors, walls and false doors. The difficulty of detecting traces of paint complicates the identification of the ancient use of this decorative technique. The aim of this work is to describe the great utility of the plugin DStretch, extension of the ImageJ software, as a method of computer analysis and processing of multispectral images on the paint traces at the sides of the Perdonighéddu domus de janas (Sorgono, NU, Sardinia, Italy). This system opens up new perspectives in the study of the paintings found in the domus de janas, by allowing a crisper image of the decoration, through an alteration of digital photography chromatic scale. The analys...
Chronological problems and diet analysis in Granada province eastern plateaus during the Bronze A... more Chronological problems and diet analysis in Granada province eastern plateaus during the Bronze Age: the case of Cerro de la Virgen archaeological site (Orce, Granada, Spain). Spatial and temporal contextualization of Cerro la Virgen (Orce, Granada) graves excavated by W. Schüle in 1960’s, including C-14 datings for almost all human remains, has made possible to discuss the possible causes of the differences in levels δ15N and δ13C revealed by stable isotope analysis. Variation is mainly due to chronological factors, which is supported by the comparison with Cueva Carada (Huéscar, Granada) Chalcolithic collective burial. Other factors affecting the change are sex and residence unit (as an expression of family relationships). Differences by age focus on the high values of mature and senile individuals in δ15N. Although the mean values of pit burials are different from those of other burial types, it has not been possible to identify differences that can be clearly attributed to socia...
Ringraziamenti: Questo lavoro è stato realizzato grazie alla Borsa Post-dottorale concessa a Lili... more Ringraziamenti: Questo lavoro è stato realizzato grazie alla Borsa Post-dottorale concessa a Liliana Spanedda dall’Università di Granada per svolgere una ricerca diretta dal Prof. Alberto Moravetti del Dipartimento di Storia della Università degli Studi di Sassari nel periodo compreso tra novembre del 2007 e ottobre del 2009.Per questo studio è stata elaborata una metodologia che consente di mettere in luce le diversità esistenti, in termini quantitativi, nell’impianto planimetrico delle camere dei nuraghi, cercando di capire se le principali differenze tra questi e i protonuraghi siano solo a livello formale e architettonico o rispondano a diverse funzioni e strategie costruttive elaborate per far fronte alle nuove esigenze di una società in continua evoluzione. Sono state analizzate le camere, talvolta sovrapposte, del mastio e delle diverse torri che formano i complessi nuragici misurando l’area esterna e interna (considerando tutto lo spazio utile) e il loro perimetro esterno e ...
Durante l’età del Bronzo l’accesso ai “monumenti” fu limitato, sia per quanto riguarda i nuraghi ... more Durante l’età del Bronzo l’accesso ai “monumenti” fu limitato, sia per quanto riguarda i nuraghi sia per i centri cultuali che li succedettero. Le offerte che si rinvengono, ancora con la loro dimensione sacra, sono il risultato e l’espressione di una società gerarchica giustificata dalla “religione” e guidata dalla “ideologia guerriera”.During the Bronze Age access to “monuments” was restricted, both in regard to the earlier nuraghi and to the later religious centers. The offerings that can be recovered from these last sites, even with their sacred meanings, are the result and expression of a hierarchical society, justified by “religion” and driven by a “warrior ideology”.Durante la Edad del Bronce el acceso a los monumentos fue limitado, sea en lo que respecta a los nuraghi sea en lo que se refiere a los centros cultuales que les sucedieron. Las ofrendas que se encuentran, incluso en su dimensión sagrada, son el resultado y la expresión de una sociedad jerárquica justificada desde...
This collection of papers investigates the similarities between the megalithic and hypogean monum... more This collection of papers investigates the similarities between the megalithic and hypogean monuments of western Mediterranean Europe. The two monument types are also analysed in terms of their territorial symbolism, and their realtionship with settlement patterns, as well as their chronology and development, and their ritual and social functions.
En este trabajo se realiza una aproximación al patrón de asentamiento durante la Edad del Bronce ... more En este trabajo se realiza una aproximación al patrón de asentamiento durante la Edad del Bronce en el municipio de Dorgali a partir de tres análisis que utilizan diferentes índices relacionados con el emplazamiento de los yacimientos de hábitat: nuraghi y poblados. El tratamiento estadístico de los índices con técnicas estadísticas multivariantes ha permitido obtener diversas clasificaciones que muestran las diferencias entre los asentamientos. El estudio de estas diferencias ha permitido obtener resultados que confirman algunas de las hipótesis de partida con yacimientos siempre en lugares estratégicos pero diferenciados por su énfasis en el control global del territorio y, por tanto, de otros asentamientos, o en el control del territorio de producción inmediato. El sistema además tiene origen en momentos antiguos de la Edad del Bronce como muestran las diferencias entre los protonuraghi.In this paper an approach to Dorgali territory Bronze Age settlement pattern is made by starti...
Recientes investigaciones en el yacimiento calcolítico de Los Millares, Santa Fe de Mondújar, Alm... more Recientes investigaciones en el yacimiento calcolítico de Los Millares, Santa Fe de Mondújar, Almería, han permitido reconocer diferentes representaciones figurativas asociadas a la muralla más exterior o Muralla I, construida en torno a 2900 cal AC. La erección de esta muralla supuso una importante ampliación del poblado al ocupar zonas anteriormente destinadas a necrópolis. Se propone que algunos elementos pertenecientes al área de necrópolis fueron respetados y reutilizados para justificar, a través de los ancestros, la capacidad de acceder al asentamiento a través de la puerta principal –con la estatua-menhir situada junto a esta–, la exclusión de aquellos no vinculados –con todas las representaciones en ambos extremos de la muralla–, la integración de nuevas poblaciones –con la Tumba 63 incluida en el trazado de la muralla–, el rol de determinados personajes –con la estatua-menhir y la estela de la Tumba 63– y, en definitiva, los derechos a ocupar y explotar un territorio. Se ...
Nuragic culture traditional interpretation had stated the inland character of settlement. However... more Nuragic culture traditional interpretation had stated the inland character of settlement. However this model has been threatened by certain finds as bronze votive navicelle, diffusion of several items as mycenean pottery, and the coastal situation of numerous nuraghi, mainly at Nurra region and Orosei Gulf. Analysis of this eastern coastal zone is done here in relation to the importance not only of the first seaside, with settlements close to sea and other sites placed over the cliffs, but also of the ways which lead to the inland where new control sites are located.
A set of radiocarbon dates got from animal bone samples of Polideportivo de Martos site are prese... more A set of radiocarbon dates got from animal bone samples of Polideportivo de Martos site are presented in this paper. On one hand these dates were made in order to show continuity in the occupation of the site during the Late Neolithic, on the other hand to get the first dates on ritual contexts in the Upper Guadalquivir, and finally, get an independent evaluation of the occupation phases proposed for it. A statistical analysis of the dates’ tendencies has been used for this aim. Although some of the analyses carried out suggest that the periodization previously provided can be considered valid, obtained data implies that, in terms of space transformation, only two great moments can be distinguished, before and after 3000 cal BC. Although this new chronological frame is more recent than previous one, settlement continuity during a long period still can be maintained.
espanolCon motivo de la conmemoracion del centenario del hallazgo de los primeros vestigios de ar... more espanolCon motivo de la conmemoracion del centenario del hallazgo de los primeros vestigios de arte rupestre por parte de Hugo Obermaier en Sierra Harana queremos rendirle homenaje con este articulo. Se muestra como Sierra Harana siempre ha sido un area de interes para los arqueologos especializados en diversos periodos, aunque la investigacion haya sido discontinua, y como existe una cierta continuidad en el poblamiento de la zona, aun estando situada bastante por encima de las areas mas llanas de la Vega de Granada. Se han podido apreciar estrategias similares en lo que se refi ere a la disposicion de los asentamientos y otros yacimientos destinados al control incluso entre la Prehistoria Antigua y la Reciente, aunque las tipologias de estos y los intereses economicos fueran distintos. De hecho los abrigos con pintura rupestre fueron utilizados como marcadores de las vias de desplazamiento utilizadas por los agricultores con sus rebanos mientras anteriormente desde ciertas cuevas ...
italianoLa investigacion que aqui se presenta intenta estudiar las caracteristicas demogra?casdel... more italianoLa investigacion que aqui se presenta intenta estudiar las caracteristicas demogra?casdel sistema de asentamiento nuragico en dos secciones de las regiones historicas sardas deGallura y Dorgali. El estudio del emplazamiento a partir de los datos procedentes de lasactividades arqueologicas sobre la extension de los yacimientos y las facilidades que undeterminado entorno inmediato ofrece para el asentamiento a partir del calculo de las areasque presentan mayores facilidades para la circulacion (Cost Surface Analysis), asi como lade?nicion de las caracteristicas edafologicas nos han permitido valorar la poblacion y algunascaracteristicas de la ubicacion de los asentamientos. Se han valorado tambien los datos sobrela potencialidad eda?ca en las distintas areas con los problemas para mantener una poblacionamplia en ciertas zonas a partir solo de la explotacion agropecuaria, la complejidad y extensionde los yacimientos, la articulacion de las vias de comunicacion con los territori...
Notizie & Scavi della Sardegna Nuragica. Abstract Book of I Regional Conference (Serri, 20-22 ap... more Notizie & Scavi della Sardegna Nuragica. Abstract Book of I Regional Conference (Serri, 20-22 aprile 2017) Oral contributions Notizie & Scavi della Sardegna Nuragica. Abstract Book del I Congresso Regionale (Serri, 20-22 aprile 2017) Comunicazioni
The domus de janas are the typical rock-cut tombs of Sardinian Late Prehistory. Many of them are ... more The domus de janas are the typical rock-cut tombs of Sardinian Late Prehistory. Many of them are decorated. Motifs are made with different techniques: painting, sculpture and incision. Architectural elements, busts, cattle and sheep, and horn-shaped features are represented. Painting is generally used to decorate the ceilings, the jambs of doors, walls and false doors. The difficulty of detecting traces of paint complicates the identification of the ancient use of this decorative technique. The aim of this work is to describe the great utility of the plugin DStretch, extension of the ImageJ software, as a method of computer analysis and processing of multispectral images on the paint traces at the sides of the Perdonighéddu domus de janas (Sorgono, NU, Sardinia, Italy). This system opens up new perspectives in the study of the paintings found in the domus de janas, by allowing a crisper image of the decoration, through an alteration of digital photography chromatic scale. The analys...
Chronological problems and diet analysis in Granada province eastern plateaus during the Bronze A... more Chronological problems and diet analysis in Granada province eastern plateaus during the Bronze Age: the case of Cerro de la Virgen archaeological site (Orce, Granada, Spain). Spatial and temporal contextualization of Cerro la Virgen (Orce, Granada) graves excavated by W. Schüle in 1960’s, including C-14 datings for almost all human remains, has made possible to discuss the possible causes of the differences in levels δ15N and δ13C revealed by stable isotope analysis. Variation is mainly due to chronological factors, which is supported by the comparison with Cueva Carada (Huéscar, Granada) Chalcolithic collective burial. Other factors affecting the change are sex and residence unit (as an expression of family relationships). Differences by age focus on the high values of mature and senile individuals in δ15N. Although the mean values of pit burials are different from those of other burial types, it has not been possible to identify differences that can be clearly attributed to socia...
Un análisis morfométrico de la cerámica de Sevilleja permite discutir sus relaciones con otros ya... more Un análisis morfométrico de la cerámica de Sevilleja permite discutir sus relaciones con otros yacimientos argáricos del Alto Gucadalquivir y los cambios temporales de la cerámica al interior del mismo yacimiento.A morphometric analysis on Sevilleja pottery allows us to discuss their relationships with other Argaric sires in Upper Gucadalquivir valley and the temporal changes of the ceramics within the same site
This work tries to show how domus de janas animal representations and architectural decoration ke... more This work tries to show how domus de janas animal representations and architectural decoration keep a stronger relation than it has been suggested and it can not reduced to “religious” meaning. We submit the hypothesis that this kind of representations existed in the houses, where there were also real animal trophies as decoration. These images were linked to the role of certain animal species in the increase and exhibition of wealth and their use in the production. It’s always this role the reason why these animals could be made gods or symbols of gods, when Ideology began to be used as a power weapon.
Proyecto de investigacion "Dieta y movilidad en la Prehistoria Reciente de Andalucia. Un est... more Proyecto de investigacion "Dieta y movilidad en la Prehistoria Reciente de Andalucia. Un estudio de la jerarquizacion social a partir del registro funerario" (P12-HUM-1510), financiado por la Consejeria de Economia, Innovacion, Ciencia y Empleo de la Junta de Andalucia.
This paper explores the hypothesis that socioeconomic changes that took place in the
early stages... more This paper explores the hypothesis that socioeconomic changes that took place in the early stages of Late Prehistory (5500-2000 BC approximately) occurred at different paces and they were expressed in the movable material culture at various times. The social inequality consolidation was a so slow but unstoppable process that, in our view, began from both, the control of labor force (often of foreign origin as a result of conflict over land) and especially the accumulation through livestock. Although it was a necessary condition, the introduction and improvement of agricultural strategies did not lead immediately to a society with permanent inequalities. Despite agricultural intensification documented since the end of the sixth millennium BC by exploitation of by-products, such inequalities were slow to be settled (at least until the fourth millennium BC), and they took a longer time to be socially evident (the mid-third millennium BC). In this process, the ritual is used both to try to curb the accumulation, sometimes producing the opposite phenomenon, and to mask and subsequently display it.
Intensive systematic surface surveys carried out in Tabernas Corridor have enabled the evaluation... more Intensive systematic surface surveys carried out in Tabernas Corridor have enabled the evaluation of prehistoric occupation in a wide area, and temporal changes that involve differences in settlements number and location, in relation to territorial control. However, to determine the characteristics of temporal changes is also necessary to evaluate the demographic potential of the area and each of the coeval sites. In any case it is clear that the difficulties to establish a precise chronological frame, coupled with the intrinsic problems of the indexes used, will let us to offer only a maximum estimate of the population in each period.
Il Santuario di Santa Vittoria di Serri tra archeologia del passato e archeologia del futuro (N. Canu e R. Cicilloni, cur.), Edizioni Quasar, pp. 305-306., 2016
The difficulty of obtaining data on the production process developed during the Bronze Age Sardin... more The difficulty of obtaining data on the production process developed during the Bronze Age Sardinia has often led to reject the social hierarchy. Recently, an egalitarian society during the Final Bronze and Early Iron Ages has been proposed.
Il Santuario di Santa Vittoria di Serri tra archeologia del passato e archeologia del futuro (N. Canu e R. Cicilloni, cur.), Roma, pp. 307-308., 2016
Although fortification systems and territorial control systems change between Late and Final Bron... more Although fortification systems and territorial control systems change between Late and Final Bronze Ages, it's not can be argued that there is no interest in defining the best farming areas. The greatest sanctuaries beginning in the Final Bronze Age are very often situated in the most protected areas.
Il Santuario di Santa Vittoria di Serri tra archeologia del passato e archeologia del futuro (N. Canu e R. Cicilloni, cur.), Roma, pp. 309-310., 2016
During the Bronze Age access to "monuments" was restricted, both in regard to the earlier nuraghi... more During the Bronze Age access to "monuments" was restricted, both in regard to the earlier nuraghi and to the later religious centers. The offerings that can be recovered from these last sites, even with their sacred meanings, are the result and expression of a hierarchical society, justified by "religion" and driven by a "warrior ideology".
IV Congreso del Neolítico Peninsular (27-30 de noviembre de 2006). T. II (M.S. Hernández, J.A. Soler, J.A. López, Eds.), MARQ. Museo Arqueológico de Alicante, Alicante, pp. 64-76., Jan 1, 2008
Actas del Congreso Internacional sobre Megalitismo y otras manifestaciones funerarias contemporáneas en su contexto social, económico y cultural (J. Fernández Eraso, J.A. Mujika Alustiza, Eds.), Munibe Suplemento 32, pp. 632-647., Jan 1, 2010
Ritual funerary monuments role in the territorial delimitation during Sardinian Late Prehistory i... more Ritual funerary monuments role in the territorial delimitation during Sardinian Late Prehistory is here emphatized. Although few good chronological data are available for every monument, great classic formal types (dolmens, galleries and ortostatic and isodomic giants´ tombs) are used as indicators for a basis chronological frame. Afterwards monuments have been classified by their role in the territorial control using data about their situation. This territorial control, which includes the definition of true boundaries, is comparable to the defined one by studying Bronze Age nuragic settlements.
Neolithic and Copper Age Monuments: Emergence, function and the social construction of the landscape (B. Schulz Paulsson, B. Gaydarska, Eds.), pp. 89-106., 2014
Between the end of the V Millennium B.C. and the end of III Millennium B.C., megalithic tombs exp... more Between the end of the V Millennium B.C. and the end of III Millennium B.C., megalithic tombs expand over the Southeastern Iberian Peninsula but their positions, distributions, associations, sizes, shapes and contents are very different according not only their chronology but mainly their ideological function. A new interpretation about the Tabernas Corridor (Almeria) megalithic graves situation analysis is proposed here before discussing the differences among the Los Millares tombs (Santa Fe de Mondújar, Almería) in terms of their location and grave goods as known from the old excavations by L. Siret and A.Almagro-A.Arribas. Both subjects are included in a wider study of the Late Prehistoric funerary ritual phenomenology in the Southeastern Iberian Peninsula and its relation to the social organization through different methodological strategies.
Neolithic and Copper Age Monuments: Emergence, function and the social construction of the landscape (B. Schulz Paulsson, B. Gaydarska, Eds.),, pp. 107-º124., 2014
Rio de Gor Megalithic necropoleis are one of the most important funerary clusters in Southern Ibe... more Rio de Gor Megalithic necropoleis are one of the most important funerary clusters in Southern Iberian Peninsula. We attempted to study megalith and settlement characteristics in relation to social organization according to the scarce and old available data. Firstly, an evaluation of previous unsystematic surveys and looters destructions of monuments has been made by taking into account location of preserved tombs. Visibility GIS analysis, with the help of ancient cartographic data, have let us to suggest a hypothetical location of graves that have disappeared. GIS techniques have been used to geo-reference old archaeological maps in order to identify their approximate position. Secondly, analysis of topographic location, Total Viewshed and Cumulative Viewshed Analysis using GIS was performed to evaluate the role of visual dominance over the entire terrain. The results have shown that graves were used to mark routes in two ways, from South to North along the river course and from the valley to the plateau. Settlements were located near the valley bottom although there are some chronological and hierarchical differences. Thirdly, we have seen that tombs were not only used for a long period of time but also that they were probably arranged in groups around some of the most monumental examples, those containing rich grave goods and marking the river course in the Chalcolithic period. Probably routes from the valley to the plateau were generated by the addition of tombs from the beginning of the Late Neolithic and the system was completed with the building of great trapezoidal tombs during the third millennium BC. Fourthly, tomb reuse has been proven in the Middle and the Late Bronze Age, when there was not only pursuit for justification by tradition but also redefinition of territorial control linked to elite. This is shown by the fact that the Late Bronze Age use of the megaliths was only in relation to rich burials as can be inferred from the great amount of silver ornaments they contain.
Neolithic and Copper Age Monuments: Emergence, function and the social construction of the landscape (B. Schulz Paulsson, B. Gaydarska, Eds.), British Archaeological Reports. International Series 2625, Archaeopress, Oxford, pp. 107-124. I.S.B.N. 978-1-4073-1260-6, 2014
Rio de Gor Megalithic necropoleis are one of the most important funerary clusters in Southern Ibe... more Rio de Gor Megalithic necropoleis are one of the most important funerary clusters in Southern Iberian Peninsula. We attempted to study megalith and settlement characteristics in relation to social organization according to the scarce and old available data. Firstly, an evaluation of previous unsystematic surveys and looters destructions of monuments has been made by taking into account the location of preserved tombs. Visibility GIS analysis, with the help of ancient cartographic data, have let us to suggest a hypothetical location of graves that have disappeared. GIS techniques have been used to geo-reference old archaeological maps in order to identify their approximate position. Secondly, analysis of topographic location, Total Viewshed and Cumulative Viewshed Analysis using GIS was performed to evaluate the role of visual dominance over the entire terrain. The results have shown that graves were used to mark routes in two ways, from South to North along the river course and from the valley to the plateau. Settlements were located near the valley bottom although there are some chronological and hierarchical differences. Thirdly, we have seen that tombs were not only used for a long period of time but also that they were probably arranged in groups around some of the most monumental examples, those containing rich grave goods and marking the river course in the Chalcolithic period. Probably routes from the valley to the plateau were generated by the addition of tombs from the beginning of the Late Neolithic and the system was completed with the building of great trapezoidal tombs during the third millennium BC. Fourthly, tomb reuse has been proven in the Middle and the Late Bronze Age, when there was not only pursuit for justification by tradition but also redefinition of territorial control linked to elite. This is shown by the fact that the Late Bronze Age use of the megaliths was only in relation to rich burials as can be inferred from the great amount of silver ornaments they contain.
Neolithic and Copper Age Monuments: Emergence, function and the social construction of the landscape (B. Schulz Paulsson, B. Gaydarska, Eds.), British Archaeological Reports. International Series 2625, Archaeopress, Oxford, pp. 89-106. I.S.B.N. 978-1-4073-1260-6, 2014
Between the end of the V Millennium B.C. and the end of III Millennium B.C., megalithic tombs exp... more Between the end of the V Millennium B.C. and the end of III Millennium B.C., megalithic tombs expand over the Southeastern Iberian Peninsula but their positions, distribution, associations, sizes, shapes and contents are very different according not only their chronology but mainly their ideological function. A new interpretation of the Tabernas Corridor (Almeria) megalithic graves situation analysis is proposed here before discussing the differences among the Los Millares tombs (Santa Fe de Mondújar, Almería) in terms of their location and grave goods as known from the old excavations by L. Siret and A .Almagro-A. Arribas. Both subjects are included in a wider study of the Late Prehistoric funerary ritual phenomenology in the Southeastern Iberian Peninsula and its relation to the social organization through different methodological strategies.
Esperimento, esperienza, educazione: tracce convergenti per un percorso di valorizzazione dell’Archeologia. ARCHEOSPERIMENTARE V S’Irighintzu, Ardauli 24 - 26 Maggio 2013 (C. Loi, V. Brizzi, cur.), Paleoworking, Ardauli, pp. 26-29., 2013
Esperimento, esperienza, educazione: tracce convergenti per un percorso di valorizzazione dell’Archeologia. ARCHEOSPERIMENTARE V S’Irighintzu, Ardauli 24 - 26 Maggio 2013 (C. Loi, V. Brizzi, cur.), Paleoworking, Ardauli, pp. 18-19., 2013
Esperimento, esperienza, educazione: tracce convergenti per un percorso di valorizzazione dell’Archeologia. ARCHEOSPERIMENTARE V S’Irighintzu, Ardauli 24 - 26 Maggio 2013 (C. Loi, V. Brizzi, cur.), Paleoworking, Ardauli, pp. 18-19., 2013
Esperimento, esperienza, educazione: tracce convergenti per un percorso di valorizzazione dell’Archeologia. ARCHEOSPERIMENTARE V S’Irighintzu, Ardauli 24 - 26 Maggio 2013 (C. Loi, V. Brizzi, cur.), Paleoworking, Ardauli, pp. 18-19., 2013
Esperimento, esperienza, educazione: tracce convergenti per un percorso di valorizzazione dell’Archeologia. ARCHEOSPERIMENTARE V S’Irighintzu, Ardauli 24 - 26 Maggio 2013 (C. Loi, V. Brizzi, cur.), Paleoworking, Ardauli, pp. 18-19., 2013
Links between megalithism and hypogeism in Western Mediterranean Europe (J.A. Cámara, J.A. Afonso, L. Spanedda, Eds.), British Archaeological Reports. International Series 2151, Oxford, pp. 3-11., 2010
Links between megalithism and hypogeism in Western Mediterranean Europe (J.A. Cámara, J.A. Afonso, L. Spanedda, Eds.), British Archaeological Reports. International Series 2151, Archaeopress, Oxford, pp. 135-149., 2010
Links between megalithism and hypogeism in Western Mediterranean Europe (J.A. Cámara, J.A. Afonso, L. Spanedda, Eds.), British Archaeological Reports. International Series 2151, Archaeopress, Oxford, pp. 53-75., 2010
Forthcoming in V. Nizzo (ed.), Archaeology and Anthropology of Death, Rome 2016
Argaric Culture developed in the Iberian Southeast between 2100 and 1350 cal BC. Argaric burials ... more Argaric Culture developed in the Iberian Southeast between 2100 and 1350 cal BC. Argaric burials (individual-familiar and located inside the houses) are particularly useful for an analysis on their use in the construction and perpetuation of social identities ultimately grounded in the social relations of production. The chosen case study, A research on these processes has been made using El Castellón Alto (Galera, Granada) archaeological site data (1950-1650 cal BC). Increased social competition expressed in the amortization of wealth in grave goods can be suggested. Affiliation and dependence, and especially of social control processes, can be inferred from graves spatial distribution and association in the village.
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early stages of Late Prehistory (5500-2000 BC approximately) occurred at different paces
and they were expressed in the movable material culture at various times. The social inequality
consolidation was a so slow but unstoppable process that, in our view, began
from both, the control of labor force (often of foreign origin as a result of conflict over
land) and especially the accumulation through livestock. Although it was a necessary condition, the introduction and improvement of agricultural strategies did not lead
immediately to a society with permanent inequalities. Despite agricultural intensification
documented since the end of the sixth millennium BC by exploitation of by-products,
such inequalities were slow to be settled (at least until the fourth millennium BC),
and they took a longer time to be socially evident (the mid-third millennium BC). In this
process, the ritual is used both to try to curb the accumulation, sometimes producing the
opposite phenomenon, and to mask and subsequently display it.