K T Lillios
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 76385 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | K T Lillios |
| NOMBRES | K T |
| APELLIDO | Lillios |
| FIRMA | LILLIOS K T |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Iowa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0683-2428 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 132 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1990 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
The Engraved Slate Plaques of Late Neolithic and Copper Age Iberia
The engraved slate plaques were part of an extensive and variable class of ritual objects in Late Neolithic and Copper Age Iberia, with Classic plaques being the most numerous and standardized type. Classic plaques have a top and base separated by a horizontal line or bands, and base registers of repeating design elements (triangles, checkerboard, etc.). Associated with burials, they have been interpreted as genealogical records, with their base …
Islamic Lives of Iberian Megaliths
Modernist archaeology involves the dating and ordering of events, construction phases, objects, people, or processes in well-bounded and discrete sequences. The notion that objects or monuments date to one time or one cultural phase, however, is problematic, particularly in the case of large stone monuments, such as megaliths, whose construction and use are generally dated to the Neolithic, between 6000 and 2500 BCE. This paper examines the metho…
The archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula from the Palaeolithic to the Bronze Age
In this book, Katina Lillios provides an up-to-date synthesis of the rich histories of the peoples who lived on the Iberian Peninsula between 1,400,000 (the Paleolithic) and 3,500 years ago (the Bronze Age) as revealed in their art, burials, tools, and monuments. She highlights the exciting new discoveries on the Peninsula, including the evidence for some of the earliest hominins in Europe, Neanderthal art, interbreeding between Neanderthals and …
Mobility and Alterity in Iberian Late Prehistoric Archaeology
Archaeological investigations of late prehistoric Iberia between the Neolithic and Bronze Age (6000-1500 BCE) have long been a battleground between indigenist and exogenous models, and understandings of mobility and alterity have played an important role in these debates. Prior to the development of radiocarbon dating, key cultural transformations, such as megaliths, copper metallurgy, fortified hilltop settlements, and Beakers, were generally as…
The genomic history of the Iberian Peninsula over the past 8000 years
Genomics of the Iberian Peninsula Ancient DNA studies have begun to help us understand the genetic history and movements of people across the globe. Focusing on the Iberian Peninsula, Olalde et al. report genome-wide data from 271 ancient individuals from Iberia (see the Perspective by Vander Linden). The findings provide a comprehensive genetic time transect of the region. Linguistics analysis and genetic analysis of archaeological human remains…
O Arqueólogo Cordial
The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe
Veinte años de arqueología de la Prehistoria tardía en la Península Ibérica. Mirando hacia atrás y hacia adelante
Las investigaciones arqueológicas de las comunidades agrarias del VI al II milenios a. C. en la Península Ibérica han sufrido transformaciones fundamentales en los últimos 25 años. Este artículo trata de proporcionar una visión general de esta investigación considerando tres temas: 1) los cambios en la teoría, la perspectiva y la práctica, 2) el descubrimiento de nuevos sitios o tipos de sitios, y 3) la evolución de las metodologías y técnicas an…
Cultural, Demographic and Environmental Dynamics of the Copper and Early Bronze Age in Iberia (3300–1500 BC)
Other” possibilities? Assessing regional and extra-regional dental affinities of populations in the Portuguese Estremadura to explore the roots of Iberia's Late Neolithic-Copper Age
Regional Demographic Dynamics in the Neolithic Transition in Iberia
Applying Zooarchaeological Methods to Interpret Mortuary Behaviour and Taphonomy in Commingled Burials
The rock-cut tomb of Bolores in the Portuguese Estremadura dates primarily to the Late Neolithic/Copper Age (2800-2600 BC) and, in a series of recent excavations, has yielded thousands of fragmented, commingled human bone specimens. The primary goals of the present study were to determine the minimum number of individuals interred in the tomb and to analyse spatial patterns in fragmentation intensity to identify natural and anthropogenic taphonom…
Environmental change and economic practices between the third and second millennia BC using isotope analyses of ovicaprid remains from the archeological site of Zambujal (Torres Vedras), Portugal
Figurines, materiality and social life in ancient Mesoamerica
Reading these two books is like peering into a magnifying lens. One is able to focus in and reflect on small details, but is also made aware that these details are inextricably linked to, and informed by, other elements in the field of view. In Material relations: the marriage figurines of Prehispanic Honduras and Maya figurines: intersections between state and household, the authors carry out focused analyses of ceramic figurines from pre-Hispan…
Assessing change in diet and biological affinity between the 4th and 3rd millennia cal BCE in the Portuguese Estremadura
La tumba hipogea de Bolores (Torres Vedras)
Para comprender mejor el paisaje sociopolítico de la Extremadura portuguesa durante el Neolítico Final/Edad del Cobre se han llevado a cabo excavaciones interdisciplinares en Bolores (Torres Vedras), en el valle del río Sizandro. Tras una campaña de prueba en 1986, un equipo de la Universidad de Iowa realizó cuatro campañas entre 2007 y 2012. Bolores es una tumba hipogea que fue utilizada principalmente entre 2800 y 2600 cal BCE como enterramient…
Practice, Process, and Social Change in Third Millennium BC Europe
This paper considers the shift from the practice of collective burials to individual (or double) burials in western Europe at the end of the Neolithic/Copper Age, around 2500–2000 BC, through the lens of a particular mortuary site—the artificial cave of Bolores (Torres Vedras, Portugal). It suggests that the practices involved in making and using collective burials played an important role in this transformation towards increasing social differen…
Disciplining Bodies, Disciplining Objects
This article takes a microhistorical approach to the creation of a national museum by exploring the everyday practices of museum guards in the early history of the Museu Etnológico Português, now known as the Museu Nacional de Arqueologia, in Lisbon, Portugal. Using documentary sources such as letters, museum regulations, and notes, I explore the agency of the museum's first guards by identifying the ways they both enacted the prescribed behavior…
Religion, Death, and Dying. 3 Volumes
Landscapes of Neolithic Brittany – By Chris Scarre
SCARRE, CHRIS . Landscapes of Neolithic Brittany . xv, 326 pp., maps, figs, tables, illus., bibliogr . Oxford : Univ. Press , 2011 . £75.00 (cloth ) Landscapes of Neolithic Brittany is an important resource for anglophone archaeologists wishing to learn about current research and new approaches to the Neolithic of Brittany. Brittany is well known for its rich megalithic landscape and boasts some of Europe's oldest and largest monuments, such as t…
Archaeological Ethnographies by Yannis Hamilakis and Aris Anagnostopoulos, editors
2011). Archaeological Ethnographies by Yannis Hamilakis and Aris Anagnostopoulos, editors. Ethnoarchaeology: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 107-110
The Neolithic-Early Bronze Age Mortuary Rockshelter of Bolores, Torres Vedras, Portugal
The Late Neolithic-Early Bronze Age mortuary rockshelter of Bolores (Torres Vedras, Lisbon) is a collective burial located in the archaeologically rich landscape of the Portuguese Estremadura. Excavations were conducted in 2007 and 2008 as part of the Sizandro-Alcabrichel Research Project (SARP), a collaboration between the German Archaeological Institute-Madrid and The University of Iowa which seeks to investigate the dynamics of social evolutio…
Body and Image
Revisiting the Individual in Prehistory
Experiments in replicating facsimiles of Late Neolithic engraved slate plaques from southwestern Iberia suggest that variation related to fine-motor skills is greater between individual engravers than within the work of a single engraver. This implies that the work of different individuals producing certain classes of material culture may be distinguishable on the basis of repetitive, idiosyncratic traits. These studies also generate otherwise un…
Religion at Work in a Neolithic Society
Cultural, Demographic and Environmental Dynamics of the Copper and Early Bronze Age in Iberia (3300–1500 BC)
Regional Demographic Dynamics in the Neolithic Transition in Iberia
The archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula from the Palaeolithic to the Bronze Age
In this book, Katina Lillios provides an up-to-date synthesis of the rich histories of the peoples who lived on the Iberian Peninsula between 1,400,000 (the Paleolithic) and 3,500 years ago (the Bronze Age) as revealed in their art, burials, tools, and monuments. She highlights the exciting new discoveries on the Peninsula, including the evidence for some of the earliest hominins in Europe, Neanderthal art, interbreeding between Neanderthals and …
Revisiting the Individual in Prehistory
Experiments in replicating facsimiles of Late Neolithic engraved slate plaques from southwestern Iberia suggest that variation related to fine-motor skills is greater between individual engravers than within the work of a single engraver. This implies that the work of different individuals producing certain classes of material culture may be distinguishable on the basis of repetitive, idiosyncratic traits. These studies also generate otherwise un…
Mobility and Alterity in Iberian Late Prehistoric Archaeology
Archaeological investigations of late prehistoric Iberia between the Neolithic and Bronze Age (6000-1500 BCE) have long been a battleground between indigenist and exogenous models, and understandings of mobility and alterity have played an important role in these debates. Prior to the development of radiocarbon dating, key cultural transformations, such as megaliths, copper metallurgy, fortified hilltop settlements, and Beakers, were generally as…
The Neolithic-Early Bronze Age Mortuary Rockshelter of Bolores, Torres Vedras, Portugal
The Late Neolithic-Early Bronze Age mortuary rockshelter of Bolores (Torres Vedras, Lisbon) is a collective burial located in the archaeologically rich landscape of the Portuguese Estremadura. Excavations were conducted in 2007 and 2008 as part of the Sizandro-Alcabrichel Research Project (SARP), a collaboration between the German Archaeological Institute-Madrid and The University of Iowa which seeks to investigate the dynamics of social evolutio…
Applying Zooarchaeological Methods to Interpret Mortuary Behaviour and Taphonomy in Commingled Burials
The rock-cut tomb of Bolores in the Portuguese Estremadura dates primarily to the Late Neolithic/Copper Age (2800-2600 BC) and, in a series of recent excavations, has yielded thousands of fragmented, commingled human bone specimens. The primary goals of the present study were to determine the minimum number of individuals interred in the tomb and to analyse spatial patterns in fragmentation intensity to identify natural and anthropogenic taphonom…
Practice, Process, and Social Change in Third Millennium BC Europe
This paper considers the shift from the practice of collective burials to individual (or double) burials in western Europe at the end of the Neolithic/Copper Age, around 2500–2000 BC, through the lens of a particular mortuary site—the artificial cave of Bolores (Torres Vedras, Portugal). It suggests that the practices involved in making and using collective burials played an important role in this transformation towards increasing social differen…
Un enfoque biográfico para la Etnogeología de la Prehistoria Final en Portugal
En este trabajo, exploro las relaciones entre la biografía del artefacto y la materia prima a partir de la cual se hizo. Específicamente discuto las biografías de los útiles de piedra pulimentada de cinco sitios del Neolítico Final y Calcolítico (3500-2000 AC) de las tierras bajas portuguesas. El análisis de las características formales y materiales de los útiles (unos 1300 en total) de estos sitios indica que la materia prima a partir de la cual…
Phosphate Fractionation of Soils at Agroal, Portugal
Eidt (1973, 1977, 1984a) suggested that the analysis of soil phosphate fractions (I-III) could be used to identify land-use areas on archaeological sites as well as serve as a relative-dating technique. He noted that the total inorganic phosphate value (I + II + III) reflects the type and intensity of land-use practice, and he hypothesized that the ratio of Fraction II/I correlates with the time elapsed since soil enrichment. A test of these prop…
Other” possibilities? Assessing regional and extra-regional dental affinities of populations in the Portuguese Estremadura to explore the roots of Iberia's Late Neolithic-Copper Age
La tumba hipogea de Bolores (Torres Vedras)
Para comprender mejor el paisaje sociopolítico de la Extremadura portuguesa durante el Neolítico Final/Edad del Cobre se han llevado a cabo excavaciones interdisciplinares en Bolores (Torres Vedras), en el valle del río Sizandro. Tras una campaña de prueba en 1986, un equipo de la Universidad de Iowa realizó cuatro campañas entre 2007 y 2012. Bolores es una tumba hipogea que fue utilizada principalmente entre 2800 y 2600 cal BCE como enterramient…
Lives of Stone, Lives of People
For over a century prehistorians have approached the engraved stone plaques of the Iberian late Neolithic and Copper Age (3000–2500 BC) from a monolithic and idealist perspective, viewing the plaques as representations of the Mother Goddess. Most have not addressed the plaques' variability, their method of manufacture, the organization of their production, or their biographies. This article presents new interpretations of the Iberian plaques base…
Environmental change and economic practices between the third and second millennia BC using isotope analyses of ovicaprid remains from the archeological site of Zambujal (Torres Vedras), Portugal
Veinte años de arqueología de la Prehistoria tardía en la Península Ibérica. Mirando hacia atrás y hacia adelante
Las investigaciones arqueológicas de las comunidades agrarias del VI al II milenios a. C. en la Península Ibérica han sufrido transformaciones fundamentales en los últimos 25 años. Este artículo trata de proporcionar una visión general de esta investigación considerando tres temas: 1) los cambios en la teoría, la perspectiva y la práctica, 2) el descubrimiento de nuevos sitios o tipos de sitios, y 3) la evolución de las metodologías y técnicas an…
Spain at the Dawn of History
Spain at the Dawn of History
Phosphate Fractionation of Soils at Agroal, Portugal
Eidt (1973, 1977, 1984a) suggested that the analysis of soil phosphate fractions (I-III) could be used to identify land-use areas on archaeological sites as well as serve as a relative-dating technique. He noted that the total inorganic phosphate value (I + II + III) reflects the type and intensity of land-use practice, and he hypothesized that the ratio of Fraction II/I correlates with the time elapsed since soil enrichment. A test of these prop…
Archeology
Nationalism, Politics and the Practice of Archaeology
Archaeology has often been put to political use, particularly by nationalists. The case studies in this timely collection range from the propaganda purposes served by archaeology in the Nazi state, through the complex interplay of official dogma and academic prehistory in the former Soviet Union, to lesser-known instances of ideological archaeology in other European countries, in China, Japan, Korea and the Near East. The introductory and conclud…
Amphibolite tools of the Portuguese Copper Age (3000–2000 B.C.)
One of the factors that may have contributed to the emergence of elites during the Copper Age (3000–2000 B.C.) of lowland Portugal was differential access to amphibolite. Amphibolite is a metamorphic rock found in the uplands of western Iberia and was used to make groundstone tools. In order to determine whether lowland communities had unequal access to amphibolite, source areas in western Iberia were analyzed, and groundstone artifacts from four…
Amphibolite tools of the Portuguese Copper Age (3000–2000 B.C.)
Objects of Memory
Un enfoque biográfico para la Etnogeología de la Prehistoria Final en Portugal
En este trabajo, exploro las relaciones entre la biografía del artefacto y la materia prima a partir de la cual se hizo. Específicamente discuto las biografías de los útiles de piedra pulimentada de cinco sitios del Neolítico Final y Calcolítico (3500-2000 AC) de las tierras bajas portuguesas. El análisis de las características formales y materiales de los útiles (unos 1300 en total) de estos sitios indica que la materia prima a partir de la cual…
Social Transformations in Archaeology
Lives of Stone, Lives of People
For over a century prehistorians have approached the engraved stone plaques of the Iberian late Neolithic and Copper Age (3000–2500 BC) from a monolithic and idealist perspective, viewing the plaques as representations of the Mother Goddess. Most have not addressed the plaques' variability, their method of manufacture, the organization of their production, or their biographies. This article presents new interpretations of the Iberian plaques base…
Heraldry for the Dead
In the late 1800s, archaeologists began discovering engraved stone plaques in Neolithic (3500-2500 BC) graves in southern Portugal and Spain. About the size of one's palm, usually made of slate, and incised with geometric or, more rarely, zoomorphic and anthropomorphic designs, these plaques have mystified generations of researchers. What do their symbols signify? How were the plaques produced? Were they worn during an individual's lifetime, or o…
Revisiting the Individual in Prehistory
Experiments in replicating facsimiles of Late Neolithic engraved slate plaques from southwestern Iberia suggest that variation related to fine-motor skills is greater between individual engravers than within the work of a single engraver. This implies that the work of different individuals producing certain classes of material culture may be distinguishable on the basis of repetitive, idiosyncratic traits. These studies also generate otherwise un…
Memory Work
Land, Power, and Prestige
The Neolithic-Early Bronze Age Mortuary Rockshelter of Bolores, Torres Vedras, Portugal
The Late Neolithic-Early Bronze Age mortuary rockshelter of Bolores (Torres Vedras, Lisbon) is a collective burial located in the archaeologically rich landscape of the Portuguese Estremadura. Excavations were conducted in 2007 and 2008 as part of the Sizandro-Alcabrichel Research Project (SARP), a collaboration between the German Archaeological Institute-Madrid and The University of Iowa which seeks to investigate the dynamics of social evolutio…
Body and Image
Archaeological Ethnographies by Yannis Hamilakis and Aris Anagnostopoulos, editors
2011). Archaeological Ethnographies by Yannis Hamilakis and Aris Anagnostopoulos, editors. Ethnoarchaeology: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 107-110
Religion, Death, and Dying. 3 Volumes
Landscapes of Neolithic Brittany – By Chris Scarre
SCARRE, CHRIS . Landscapes of Neolithic Brittany . xv, 326 pp., maps, figs, tables, illus., bibliogr . Oxford : Univ. Press , 2011 . £75.00 (cloth ) Landscapes of Neolithic Brittany is an important resource for anglophone archaeologists wishing to learn about current research and new approaches to the Neolithic of Brittany. Brittany is well known for its rich megalithic landscape and boasts some of Europe's oldest and largest monuments, such as t…
Disciplining Bodies, Disciplining Objects
This article takes a microhistorical approach to the creation of a national museum by exploring the everyday practices of museum guards in the early history of the Museu Etnológico Português, now known as the Museu Nacional de Arqueologia, in Lisbon, Portugal. Using documentary sources such as letters, museum regulations, and notes, I explore the agency of the museum's first guards by identifying the ways they both enacted the prescribed behavior…
Assessing change in diet and biological affinity between the 4th and 3rd millennia cal BCE in the Portuguese Estremadura
La tumba hipogea de Bolores (Torres Vedras)
Para comprender mejor el paisaje sociopolítico de la Extremadura portuguesa durante el Neolítico Final/Edad del Cobre se han llevado a cabo excavaciones interdisciplinares en Bolores (Torres Vedras), en el valle del río Sizandro. Tras una campaña de prueba en 1986, un equipo de la Universidad de Iowa realizó cuatro campañas entre 2007 y 2012. Bolores es una tumba hipogea que fue utilizada principalmente entre 2800 y 2600 cal BCE como enterramient…
Practice, Process, and Social Change in Third Millennium BC Europe
This paper considers the shift from the practice of collective burials to individual (or double) burials in western Europe at the end of the Neolithic/Copper Age, around 2500–2000 BC, through the lens of a particular mortuary site—the artificial cave of Bolores (Torres Vedras, Portugal). It suggests that the practices involved in making and using collective burials played an important role in this transformation towards increasing social differen…
Environmental change and economic practices between the third and second millennia BC using isotope analyses of ovicaprid remains from the archeological site of Zambujal (Torres Vedras), Portugal
Figurines, materiality and social life in ancient Mesoamerica
Reading these two books is like peering into a magnifying lens. One is able to focus in and reflect on small details, but is also made aware that these details are inextricably linked to, and informed by, other elements in the field of view. In Material relations: the marriage figurines of Prehispanic Honduras and Maya figurines: intersections between state and household, the authors carry out focused analyses of ceramic figurines from pre-Hispan…
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