M Díaz‐zorita Bonilla
Biographic Data
| ID | 128614 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Díaz‐zorita Bonilla |
| GIVEN NAMES | M Díaz‐zorita |
| FAMILY NAME | Bonilla |
| SIGNATURE | BONILLA M D Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tübingen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1697-0111 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 276 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Isoscape modelling choices and their implications for archaeological mobility interpretations
Gender identities in the prehistoric societies of south-eastern Iberia
Anthropological skeletal remains provide access to the embodied dimensions of daily life, allowing the exploration of how gender was shaped through culturally specific practices. Non-masticatory dental wear has recently emerged as a valuable proxy for identifying craft-related activities and their potential association with gendered roles. The aim of this study is to explore gender identities through non-masticatory dental wear analysis and the c…
Defining local 87Sr/86Sr baselines using high-resolution bioavailable strontium isoscapes
New Dates for the Emergence of the Megalithic Phenomenon on the Iberian Plateau
This study presents an analysis of funerary practices at the site of Valdelasilla (Illescas, Toledo, Spain). The methodology integrates the morphological study of burial structures, anthropological analyses, a consideration of grave goods and the radiocarbon dating of human bone. The chronological data indicate funerary activity at the site from the Late Neolithic to the Chalcolithic period. Bayesian modelling confirms the establishment of a plan…
Island subsistence during the Late Bronze and Iron Age in Menorca
Isotopes reveal a strongly terrestrial diet at Biniadrís from Bronze to Iron Age. • Bayesian models show balanced livestock use, with rising pig consumption over time. • No marine resource use, despite immediate coastal access. • Evidence points to resilient, adaptive dryland agropastoral strategies. The Biniadrís cave, a Late Bronze and Early Iron Age funerary site in Menorca, Spain, offers exceptional preservation for investigating dietary patt…
Fonte dos Cântaros 5 (Beja)
Funerary Practices Among Central European First Farmers in the Light of New Radiocarbon Dates
This paper examines the temporal dynamics of Linearbandkeramik (LBK) mortuary practices in south-eastern Czechia and western Slovakia, focusing on the emergence and development of funerary traditions. New radiocarbon dating of Moravian sites, including Vedrovice (with the large cemetery Široká u lesa , the settlement graves at Sídliště, and the small cluster of burials at Za dvorem ), Brno-Starý/Nový Lískovec , Těšetice-Kyjovice-Sutny , as well a…
Territorialisation and human mobility during the Iron Age in NE Iberia
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New temporal dimensions of the Linearbandkeramik cemetery horizon in Schwetzingen (Germany)
Cemeteries of the Early Neolithic Linearbandkeramik culture (LBK, 5500-4900 BC) evoke a sense of emerging permanence of place as agricultural subsistence spread westward through Central Europe. Yet assumptions about the sequence of senescence and longevity of cemetery use are based on limited data. Here, the authors challenge the view that cemetery burial was a long-lasting Neolithic practice, modelling 50 new radiocarbon dates from the cemetery …
In memoriam Víctor M. Hurtado Pérez (1950-2024)
Mesa Redonda Complex (Villaverde del Río, Seville)
The archaeological site of Mesa Redonda (Villaverde del Río, Seville) was the subject of archaeological research at the end of the 1970s, and only recently has new research been carried out. In this paper we present the results of both the old and the new archaeological work conducted in 2019-2021. We have named this site the Mesa Redonda Complex, because of the wider period of use and because it includes many different sites. According to the re…
Bioavailable 87 Sr/ 86 Sr variability and Bronze and Iron Ages caprine mobility on the Balearic Islands (Spain)
This paper presents the most extensive 87Sr/86Sr datasets from Late Prehistory contexts in addition to bioavailable 87Sr/86Sr values for baseline characterization on the Balearic Islands. A total of 149 caprine dental enamel samples from Mallorca, Menorca, and Formentera islands (Spain), and 35 environmental baseline samples covering the main geologies of these islands are presented here. In addition, a combination of strontium and oxygen sequent…
Patrilocality at the Beginning of Farming? An Isotopic Approach from SE Moravia
This research combines Strontium ( 87 Sr/ 86 Sr) and Oxygen ( δ 18 O) isotope analysis to challenge the prevailing interpretation of patrilocal exogamic practices among eastern European Early Neolithic Linearbandkeramik (LBK) communities. Patrilocality has been considered the key factor influencing the mobility patterns of central Europe’s first farmers (c. 5500–4900 cal. BC), especially in the south-eastern Moravian region (Czech Republic). Focu…
Integrating Bioarchaeology and Chronology at Los Melgarejos to Understand Ditched Enclosures in Copper Age Iberia
In Iberia, ditched enclosures appeared during the Copper Age (late fourth to third millennium bc ). These sites are linked by their circular organization, communal labour investment, and complex temporality, but vary markedly in their distribution, function, and scale. Though archaeological attention has focused on ‘mega-sites’, an assessment of small-scale enclosures in marginal environments is key to understanding the social dynamics that facil…
Carefully sourced, carefully managed
Equids played an important role in the development of communication in past societies, and were part of the exchanges between populations. The multi-isotopic study (strontium, carbon and oxygen isotopes) conducted on equid teeth from Bronze and Early Iron Age Can Roqueta suggests that animals originate from diverse locations and their diet was carefully managed. The enriched oxygen and carbon isotopic ratios in equid teeth compared with other tax…
Funerary practices in megalithic tombs during the Argaric Bronze Age in South-Eastern Iberia
The transition between the Copper Age and the Argaric Bronze Age in south-eastern Iberia has traditionally been understood in an evolutionary framework that would have involved the replacement of some cultural forms by others. The chronology of megalithic societies has changed this assumption, revealing that the continuity of ancestral funerary practices is also a key feature of the Bronze Age. In this context, the new radiocarbon series from Los…
Tracing Mobility Patterns of Buried Species of the Late Iron Age Funerary Staggered Turriform of Son Ferrer (Calvià, Spain)
This is the first mobility 87 Sr/ 86 Sr analysis in human remains made on the Balearic Islands. Eight human individuals buried at the same Late Iron Age funerary chamber of Son Ferrer site (Calvià, Mallorca) have been sampled for strontium and oxygen isotopic analysis ( 87 Sr/ 86 Sr and δ 18 O). The study includes strontium and oxygen isotopic analysis of domestic mammals buried in the same Funerary Area (FA1) together with present-day vegetation…
Isotopic Evidence for Mobility in the Copper and Bronze Age Cemetery of Humanejos (Parla, Madrid)
Over the last several decades, the application of aDNA and strontium isotope analyses on archaeologically recovered human remains has provided new avenues for the investigation of mobility in past societies. Data on human mobility can be valuable in the reconstruction of prehistoric residential patterns and kinship systems, which are at the center of human social organization and vary across time and space. In this paper, we aim to contribute to …
Burial taphonomy and megalithic ritual practices in Iberia
Our ability to build precise narratives regarding megalithic funerary rituals largely depends on an accurate understanding of bone assemblage formation. The cemetery of Panoría offers an excellent opportunity for exploring the ritual variability through the study of funerary taphonomy, as four of the nine recently excavated dolmens are remarkably well-preserved. Based on a multi-proxy approach that includes the contextual archaeological features,…
Paleomobility in Iberia
We examine the quantity, contextual quality and spatial distribution of the data gathered in the strontium isotope archaeological database for the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands, an open source available as part of IDEArq (www.idearq.org), the spatial data infrastructure hosted at the Instituto de Historia (CSIC). It has to date 1635 87Sr/86Sr values from human and animal samples, and environmental proxies recovered during archaeologi…
The tempo of the Iberian megalithic rituals in the European context
Our ability to build precise narratives regarding megalithic societies largely depends on the chronology of the multi-ritual events that usually shaped these complex sites. The cemetery of Panoría offers an excellent opportunity for exploring ritual complexity in Iberia through radiocarbon chronology, as four of the nine recently excavated dolmens are remarkably well preserved. For this purpose, seventy-three radiocarbon dates were obtained and a…
Cuerpos estereotipados, cuerpos enterrados, cuerpos representados, cuerpos cambiantes
En este trabajo abordamos distintas vías de aproximación a las identidades corporales femeninas y a su agencia, desde una perspectiva transversal, tomando como referencia algunos casos de estudio procedentes de contextos seleccionados de la prehistoria y protohistoria de la península ibérica, así como del Mediterráneo Antiguo. Tres ejes principales ordenarán este acercamiento: en primer lugar, una reflexión sobre los estereotipos de las imágenes …
Environmental Implications and Chalcolithic Ornamental Use of Marine Barnacle Shells Present in the Tholos of ‘La Pastora’ (Valencina de la Concepción, Sevilla, Spain)
The study of a set of marine arthropod shells from an archaeological excavation carried out in 1991–1992 in the tholos of La Pastora (Cooper Age Mega-site of Valencina-Castilleja, S Spain), has highlighted the environmental implications and ornamental use as beads not cited so far for this purpose. It is the barnacle species Chthamalus montagui Southward, 1976 Southward, A. J. 1976. “On the Taxonomic Status and Distribution of Chthamalus stellatu…
La cronología radiocarbónica de las sepulturas tipo tholos en la península ibérica
Gracias al reciente desarrollo de la cronología radiocarbónica, por primera vez existe una serie de dataciones robusta y fiable para analizar uno de los tipos de monumentos megalíticos más característicos de la península ibérica, las sepulturas tipo tholos. Una nueva serie de 193 fechas pertenecientes a 42 sepulturas distribuidas por el sur de España y el centro y sur de Portugal ha sido analizada utilizando modelos estadísticos y herramientas de…
El recinto de fosos calcolítico del Cerro de los Vientos (Puente del Obispo, Jaén)
En este trabajo se da a conocer el recinto de fosos prehistrico del Cerro de los Vientos, localizado en la poblacin de Puente del Obispo (Jan, Espaa). Se presentan su planta completa, las estructuras que lo componen, la caracterizacin de los conjuntos cermicos y lticos hallados en sus rellenos, dos dataciones inditas y el anlisis polnico realizado en el yacimiento. Estos estudios han permitido reconocer la construccin de dos fosos concntricos y m…
Assembling the Dead, Gathering the Living
The great site of Valencina de la Concepción, near Seville in the lower Guadalquivir valley of southwest Spain, is presented in the context of debate about the nature of Copper Age society in southern Iberia as a whole. Many aspects of the layout, use, character and development of Valencina remain unclear, just as there are major unresolved questions about the kind of society represented there and in southern Iberia, from the late fourth to the l…
Cultural Continuity and Social Resistance
Inspired by the biographical approach to the study of material culture, a radiocarbon dating programme was undertaken to explore the chronology and temporality of the megalithic monuments in south-eastern Iberia. Instead of one or two dates per tomb, the normal way of approaching this complex issue, we carried out a complete radiocarbon dating series of single tombs based on human remains. We focused our attention on four tholos-type tombs in the…
Multi-isotopic diet analysis of south-eastern Iberian megalithic populations
First insight into the Neolithic subsistence economy in the north‐east Iberian Peninsula
The reported variations in interpopulational subsistence strategies among the compared Mediterranean societies do not seem to be directly related to the settlement region. Together with archeological data, this indicates the influence of socioeconomic factors in the Neolithic human diet. A general tendency toward a lesser use of aquatic resources is seen in this period in Iberia and the rest of the Mediterranean, as also documented for contempora…
The radiocarbon chronology and temporality of the megalithic cemetery of Los Millares (Almería, Spain)
Feeding a third millennium BC mega-site
Investigating palaeodietary and social differences between two differentiated sectors of a Neolithic community, La Bòbila Madurell-Can Gambús (north-east Iberian Peninsula)
The tempo of the Iberian megalithic rituals in the European context
Our ability to build precise narratives regarding megalithic societies largely depends on the chronology of the multi-ritual events that usually shaped these complex sites. The cemetery of Panoría offers an excellent opportunity for exploring ritual complexity in Iberia through radiocarbon chronology, as four of the nine recently excavated dolmens are remarkably well preserved. For this purpose, seventy-three radiocarbon dates were obtained and a…
Isotopic evidence for mobility at large-scale human aggregations in Copper Age Iberia
Settlements incorporating large-scale human aggregations are a well-documented but poorly understood phenomenon across late prehistoric Europe. The authors’ research examines the origins and trajectory of such aggregations through isotope analysis of human skeletal remains from the mega-site of Marroquíes in Jaén, Spain. The results indicate that eight per cent of 115 sampled individuals are of non-local origin. These individuals received mortuar…
A Palaeodietary Study of Stable Isotope Analysis from a High-status Burial in the Copper Age
This palaeodietary study presents carbon and nitrogen stable isotope data from human and faunal skeletal remains from the Copper Age settlement of Valencina de la Concepción-Castilleja de Guzmán, located in Seville, Spain. Montelirio, the only Valencina-Castilleja human group from which we have obtained reliable palaeodietary results, had a diet based on C3 terrestrial resources, including both plants and animals. The protein component of the die…
Residential Mobility and Dental Decoration in Early Medieval Spain
Excavations at Plaza del Castillo in Pamplona (northern Spain) revealed a large Islamic necropolis dating to the eighth century A.D., including the skeleton of an adult female showing intentional dental modification (PLA-159). While the practice of dental decoration was virtually absent in Medieval Spain, it is common in Africa and suggests that this individual was born in Africa and brought to Spain later in life. The historically documented occ…
A Radiocarbon Dating Approach to the Deposition and Removal of Human Bone Remains in Megalithic Monuments
The formation of commingled human bone assemblages is a key aspect for better understanding funerary rituals. The megalithic cemetery of Panoría (Spain) provides an excellent opportunity to explore bone assemblage formation thanks to the recent excavation of an undisturbed burial. For this purpose, we have approached the differential skeletal representation found between bone and teeth at the site through radiocarbon ( 14 C) dating and Bayesian m…
New Insights into the Radiocarbon Chronology of Iberian Megalithic Societies
In 2012, the authors undertook a radiocarbon dating programme to explore the chronology of southern Iberian megalithic societies. Thirty new radiocarbon dates were obtained for two tholos -type tombs, Loma de Belmonte and Loma del Campo 2, and analysed within a Bayesian framework. Results are discussed in the context of the prehistoric societies of the region and four main conclusions were reached: i) in both tombs, mortuary activity started in t…
Multi-isotope approaches to the Neolithic cemetery-cave of Bom Santo (Lisbon)
Patrilocality at the Beginning of Farming? An Isotopic Approach from SE Moravia
This research combines Strontium ( 87 Sr/ 86 Sr) and Oxygen ( δ 18 O) isotope analysis to challenge the prevailing interpretation of patrilocal exogamic practices among eastern European Early Neolithic Linearbandkeramik (LBK) communities. Patrilocality has been considered the key factor influencing the mobility patterns of central Europe’s first farmers (c. 5500–4900 cal. BC), especially in the south-eastern Moravian region (Czech Republic). Focu…
Burial taphonomy and megalithic ritual practices in Iberia
Our ability to build precise narratives regarding megalithic funerary rituals largely depends on an accurate understanding of bone assemblage formation. The cemetery of Panoría offers an excellent opportunity for exploring the ritual variability through the study of funerary taphonomy, as four of the nine recently excavated dolmens are remarkably well-preserved. Based on a multi-proxy approach that includes the contextual archaeological features,…
Mesolithic human remains at Cueva de Nerja (Málaga, Spain)
Reconstruction of Socioeconomic Status in the Medieval (14th-15th Century) Population of Grevenmacher (Luxembourg) Based on Growth, Development and Diet
Numerous historical sources describe many aspects of the estate-based society in medieval times; the detection of socioeconomic status within populations through skeletal remains is a topic of growing interest in anthropological studies. In medieval times, it was common for members of high social rank to be buried within or next to a church. This was certainly the case in Grevenmacher (Luxembourg), where remains of a church building and an adjace…
Funerary practices in megalithic tombs during the Argaric Bronze Age in South-Eastern Iberia
The transition between the Copper Age and the Argaric Bronze Age in south-eastern Iberia has traditionally been understood in an evolutionary framework that would have involved the replacement of some cultural forms by others. The chronology of megalithic societies has changed this assumption, revealing that the continuity of ancestral funerary practices is also a key feature of the Bronze Age. In this context, the new radiocarbon series from Los…
Marine food consumption in coastal northern Chilean (Atacama Desert) populations during the Formative Period
The chronology and duration of the prehistoric ditched enclosures
The time spans of the so-called ditched enclosures are key to a better understanding of a type of site characterised by complex palimpsests. Several conclusions can be drawn from the 16 radiocarbon dates obtained from Ditch 4 at Marroquíes Bajos. According to Bayesian modelling, the filling process began in 2510-2310 cal BC at 2 σ and ended in 2115-1795 cal BC at 2 σ, making them the most recent ditched enclosure with depositional activity in Ibe…
La cronología radiocarbónica de las sepulturas tipo tholos en la península ibérica
Gracias al reciente desarrollo de la cronología radiocarbónica, por primera vez existe una serie de dataciones robusta y fiable para analizar uno de los tipos de monumentos megalíticos más característicos de la península ibérica, las sepulturas tipo tholos. Una nueva serie de 193 fechas pertenecientes a 42 sepulturas distribuidas por el sur de España y el centro y sur de Portugal ha sido analizada utilizando modelos estadísticos y herramientas de…
The Deposition of Human Remains Inside Chalcolithic Ditched Enclosures
In the last few decades, the discovery of large ditched enclosures in Iberia has revealed the diversity and complexity of deposition and manipulation of human bone remains. Alongside traditional ritual burials (mainly megalithic tombs and hypogea), fragmented and scattered human bones mixed with other kinds of material culture began to appear in many features. This is the case for Ditch 5 at Marroquíes, which offers an excellent opportunity to ex…
La población no adulta del asentamiento de la Edad del Cobre de Valencina de la Concepción (Sevilla)
A partir de la revisión de estudios previos y de la aportación de datos inéditos se realiza un análisis de la población no adulta del asentamiento de la Edad del Cobre de Valencina de la Concepción (Sevilla). En total se examinan 39 sujetos no adultos inhumados en contenedores funerarios de distinto tipo y repartidos a lo largo de la amplia cronología de este asentamiento. Como resultado se constata la alta variabilidad de la proporción de este s…
Isotopic Evidence for Mobility in the Copper and Bronze Age Cemetery of Humanejos (Parla, Madrid)
Over the last several decades, the application of aDNA and strontium isotope analyses on archaeologically recovered human remains has provided new avenues for the investigation of mobility in past societies. Data on human mobility can be valuable in the reconstruction of prehistoric residential patterns and kinship systems, which are at the center of human social organization and vary across time and space. In this paper, we aim to contribute to …
El asentamiento de la Edad del Cobre de Valencina de la Concepción (Sevilla). Demografía, metalurgia y organización espacial
En este trabajo se presentan los resultados obtenidos en una revisión del registro arqueológico disponible del sitio prehistórico de Valencina de la Concepción (Sevilla, España), uno de los asentamientos más importantes del Suroeste de la Península Ibérica durante los milenios III y II ANE. A la luz de métodos estadísticos convencionales y espaciales (con particular énfasis en las pruebas de significación) se examinan dos variables principales, l…
Investigating palaeodietary and social differences between two differentiated sectors of a Neolithic community, La Bòbila Madurell-Can Gambús (north-east Iberian Peninsula)
Marine food consumption in coastal northern Chilean (Atacama Desert) populations during the Formative Period
The chronology and duration of the prehistoric ditched enclosures
The time spans of the so-called ditched enclosures are key to a better understanding of a type of site characterised by complex palimpsests. Several conclusions can be drawn from the 16 radiocarbon dates obtained from Ditch 4 at Marroquíes Bajos. According to Bayesian modelling, the filling process began in 2510-2310 cal BC at 2 σ and ended in 2115-1795 cal BC at 2 σ, making them the most recent ditched enclosure with depositional activity in Ibe…
A Palaeodietary Study of Stable Isotope Analysis from a High-status Burial in the Copper Age
This palaeodietary study presents carbon and nitrogen stable isotope data from human and faunal skeletal remains from the Copper Age settlement of Valencina de la Concepción-Castilleja de Guzmán, located in Seville, Spain. Montelirio, the only Valencina-Castilleja human group from which we have obtained reliable palaeodietary results, had a diet based on C3 terrestrial resources, including both plants and animals. The protein component of the die…
First insight into the Neolithic subsistence economy in the north‐east Iberian Peninsula
The reported variations in interpopulational subsistence strategies among the compared Mediterranean societies do not seem to be directly related to the settlement region. Together with archeological data, this indicates the influence of socioeconomic factors in the Neolithic human diet. A general tendency toward a lesser use of aquatic resources is seen in this period in Iberia and the rest of the Mediterranean, as also documented for contempora…
Cultural Continuity and Social Resistance
Inspired by the biographical approach to the study of material culture, a radiocarbon dating programme was undertaken to explore the chronology and temporality of the megalithic monuments in south-eastern Iberia. Instead of one or two dates per tomb, the normal way of approaching this complex issue, we carried out a complete radiocarbon dating series of single tombs based on human remains. We focused our attention on four tholos-type tombs in the…
Reconstruction of Socioeconomic Status in the Medieval (14th-15th Century) Population of Grevenmacher (Luxembourg) Based on Growth, Development and Diet
Numerous historical sources describe many aspects of the estate-based society in medieval times; the detection of socioeconomic status within populations through skeletal remains is a topic of growing interest in anthropological studies. In medieval times, it was common for members of high social rank to be buried within or next to a church. This was certainly the case in Grevenmacher (Luxembourg), where remains of a church building and an adjace…
La población no adulta del asentamiento de la Edad del Cobre de Valencina de la Concepción (Sevilla)
A partir de la revisión de estudios previos y de la aportación de datos inéditos se realiza un análisis de la población no adulta del asentamiento de la Edad del Cobre de Valencina de la Concepción (Sevilla). En total se examinan 39 sujetos no adultos inhumados en contenedores funerarios de distinto tipo y repartidos a lo largo de la amplia cronología de este asentamiento. Como resultado se constata la alta variabilidad de la proporción de este s…
Feeding a third millennium BC mega-site
Assembling the Dead, Gathering the Living
The great site of Valencina de la Concepción, near Seville in the lower Guadalquivir valley of southwest Spain, is presented in the context of debate about the nature of Copper Age society in southern Iberia as a whole. Many aspects of the layout, use, character and development of Valencina remain unclear, just as there are major unresolved questions about the kind of society represented there and in southern Iberia, from the late fourth to the l…
Residential Mobility and Dental Decoration in Early Medieval Spain
Excavations at Plaza del Castillo in Pamplona (northern Spain) revealed a large Islamic necropolis dating to the eighth century A.D., including the skeleton of an adult female showing intentional dental modification (PLA-159). While the practice of dental decoration was virtually absent in Medieval Spain, it is common in Africa and suggests that this individual was born in Africa and brought to Spain later in life. The historically documented occ…
Isotopic evidence for mobility at large-scale human aggregations in Copper Age Iberia
Settlements incorporating large-scale human aggregations are a well-documented but poorly understood phenomenon across late prehistoric Europe. The authors’ research examines the origins and trajectory of such aggregations through isotope analysis of human skeletal remains from the mega-site of Marroquíes in Jaén, Spain. The results indicate that eight per cent of 115 sampled individuals are of non-local origin. These individuals received mortuar…
Possible interpersonal violence in the Neolithic necropolis of Campo de Hockey (San Fernando, Cádiz, Spain)
Multi-isotope approaches to the Neolithic cemetery-cave of Bom Santo (Lisbon)
Multi-isotopic diet analysis of south-eastern Iberian megalithic populations
El recinto de fosos calcolítico del Cerro de los Vientos (Puente del Obispo, Jaén)
En este trabajo se da a conocer el recinto de fosos prehistrico del Cerro de los Vientos, localizado en la poblacin de Puente del Obispo (Jan, Espaa). Se presentan su planta completa, las estructuras que lo componen, la caracterizacin de los conjuntos cermicos y lticos hallados en sus rellenos, dos dataciones inditas y el anlisis polnico realizado en el yacimiento. Estos estudios han permitido reconocer la construccin de dos fosos concntricos y m…
Neolithic networking and mobility during the 5th and 4th millennia BC in north-eastern Iberia
A Radiocarbon Dating Approach to the Deposition and Removal of Human Bone Remains in Megalithic Monuments
The formation of commingled human bone assemblages is a key aspect for better understanding funerary rituals. The megalithic cemetery of Panoría (Spain) provides an excellent opportunity to explore bone assemblage formation thanks to the recent excavation of an undisturbed burial. For this purpose, we have approached the differential skeletal representation found between bone and teeth at the site through radiocarbon ( 14 C) dating and Bayesian m…
New Insights into the Radiocarbon Chronology of Iberian Megalithic Societies
In 2012, the authors undertook a radiocarbon dating programme to explore the chronology of southern Iberian megalithic societies. Thirty new radiocarbon dates were obtained for two tholos -type tombs, Loma de Belmonte and Loma del Campo 2, and analysed within a Bayesian framework. Results are discussed in the context of the prehistoric societies of the region and four main conclusions were reached: i) in both tombs, mortuary activity started in t…
The Deposition of Human Remains Inside Chalcolithic Ditched Enclosures
In the last few decades, the discovery of large ditched enclosures in Iberia has revealed the diversity and complexity of deposition and manipulation of human bone remains. Alongside traditional ritual burials (mainly megalithic tombs and hypogea), fragmented and scattered human bones mixed with other kinds of material culture began to appear in many features. This is the case for Ditch 5 at Marroquíes, which offers an excellent opportunity to ex…
Mesolithic human remains at Cueva de Nerja (Málaga, Spain)
The radiocarbon chronology and temporality of the megalithic cemetery of Los Millares (Almería, Spain)
Cuerpos estereotipados, cuerpos enterrados, cuerpos representados, cuerpos cambiantes
En este trabajo abordamos distintas vías de aproximación a las identidades corporales femeninas y a su agencia, desde una perspectiva transversal, tomando como referencia algunos casos de estudio procedentes de contextos seleccionados de la prehistoria y protohistoria de la península ibérica, así como del Mediterráneo Antiguo. Tres ejes principales ordenarán este acercamiento: en primer lugar, una reflexión sobre los estereotipos de las imágenes …
Environmental Implications and Chalcolithic Ornamental Use of Marine Barnacle Shells Present in the Tholos of ‘La Pastora’ (Valencina de la Concepción, Sevilla, Spain)
The study of a set of marine arthropod shells from an archaeological excavation carried out in 1991–1992 in the tholos of La Pastora (Cooper Age Mega-site of Valencina-Castilleja, S Spain), has highlighted the environmental implications and ornamental use as beads not cited so far for this purpose. It is the barnacle species Chthamalus montagui Southward, 1976 Southward, A. J. 1976. “On the Taxonomic Status and Distribution of Chthamalus stellatu…
Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (36 works) · Archaeology (35 works) · Geography (35 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (19 works) · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (17 works) · Archaeological and Geological Studies (16 works) · History (12 works) · Megalith (12 works) · Art (11 works) · Radiocarbon dating (11 works)