Antonio Blanco-González
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 134866 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Antonio Blanco-González |
| PRENOMES | Antonio |
| SOBRENOME | Blanco-González |
| ASSINATURA | BLANCO-GONZÁLEZ A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Universidad de Salamanca |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4502-9651 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 136 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2009 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Archaeofauna from an Early Iron Age (900 − 500 BCE) village in Central Iberia
This paper presents the results of the archaeozoological analysis of more than 5,000 bone remains in a domestic context in the village of Cerro de San Vicente (Salamanca, Spain). One of the objectives is to infer the use of domesticates and meat consumption in a multi-dwelling compound arranged around a central courtyard dating from c. 650 − 500 BCE and interpreted as the neighbourhood of a well-off virilocal corporate group, which yield numerous…
Raised from the ashes
Burnt houses are a recurrent phenomenon in the prehistoric archaeological record, yet the specific processes behind their burning—likely varying across time and place—remain poorly understood. This study focuses on a thoroughly studied dwelling (House 1) from the Iberian Early Iron Age settlement of Cerro de San Vicente and investigates site formation processes associated with its burning. To achieve this, we applied a multi-proxy geoarchaeologic…
Fire use and waste management in an Iberian Iron Age village
Early Iron Age village in Northern Iberia, with middens and earthen dwellings. • High-resolution geoarchaeological techniques are applied to midden deposits. • Maintenance practices (rake-out, cleaning, building) result in the formation of middens. • Spatial differences in waste disposal practices are documented. Middens, commonly found in archaeological sites across different chronologies, serve as rich sedimentary archives of daily life by capt…
Microhistory, Conjectural Reasoning, and Prehistory
This contribution delves into the ways of archaeological reasoning based on material remains, tackled as minute physical traces or signs capable of shedding light on underlying and otherwise unapproachable past phenomena. This is indeed the basis of Microhistory or the conjectural paradigm in History. This article identifies key characteristics regarding this way of inductive or “bottom-up” inference and demonstrates its prospects when applied to…
Arqueología doméstica del Hierro I meseteño
En este trabajo se presentan los resultados de la campaña de 2018 en la aldea del Hierro I del Cerro de San Vicente. El trabajo de campo conllevó una prospección previa con georradar (GPR) y la verificación de sus resultados preliminares mediante una cata de 200 m2, centrada en una segunda fase en los 64 m2 donde se centraban las anomalías. Se ha identificado una vivienda de planta circular, cuya trayectoria de uso muestra una biografía intercala…
Iron Age Connectivity Revealed by an Assemblage of Egyptian Faience in Central Iberia
Research concerning transactions in the early first millennium bc in the westernmost Mediterranean has tended to focus on colonial coastlands occupied by scattered Levantine outposts, whereas cross-cultural interactions in hinterland regions have remained ill-defined. This article presents an assemblage of Egyptian vitreous artefacts, namely beads, a Hathor amulet, and further items from the seventh-century bc rural village of Cerro de San Vicent…
Un santuario doméstico del siglo VII a. C. de culto a Hathor-Astarté en el Cerro de San Vicente (Salamanca, España)
Se presentan los resultados de las excavaciones de 2022 en el Cerro de San Vicente (Salamanca), que amplían el área exhumada en 2021. Se discute la secuencia diacrónica de dicho espacio y su interpretación funcional y social. Se aborda la religiosidad doméstica a partir de varios edificios de uso cultual y un abundante elenco de objetos litúrgicos: vajilla torneada egipcia o levantina pintada y fenicia de engobe rojo, un aplique de taracea y abal…
Searching for traces of human activity in earthen floor sequences
The Northern Iberian Plateau during the Early Iron Age witnessed the proliferation of villages, showcasing well-preserved earthen architectural remains that offer valuable insights into past daily life practices. However, the application of high-resolution geoarchaeological approaches to these contexts has been largely overlooked, despite their significance in assessing complex sedimentary sequences predominantly composed of earth-based construct…
Mobile craftspeople and orientalising transculturation in seventh-century BC Iberia
During the early first millennium BC, Phoenician peoples settled the Iberian coasts instigating cultural innovations known as the orientalising; indigenous communities of the interior have long been considered as passively dependent on, or isolated from, these developments. Recent excavations at the Early Iron Age village of Cerro de San Vicente in central Spain, however, have yielded domestic contexts that prompt reconsideration of this relation…
Formación de un contexto habitacional aborigen. Tafonomía y remontaje de la cerámica de La Restinga (Telde, Gran Canaria, España)
Con este artículo se pretende además de dar a conocer una parte de los trabajos arqueológicos realizados en el yacimiento de La Restinga, analizar y valorar el protocolo para analizar las pautas de rotura y erosión de los fragmentos cerámicos del yacimiento. Con este estudio se aporta información para comprender por un lado cómo llegaron los restos arqueológicos al espacio donde se identifican y por otro, conocer la caracterización tafonómica y e…
Un singular ambiente doméstico del Hierro I en el interior de la península ibérica
Se presentan los resultados de las excavaciones (2006, 2017 y 2021) en un sector de la aldea del Hierro I del Cerro de San Vicente (Salamanca). Se ha exhumado un agregado informal de edificios y estructuras adjetivas de adobe cuyo patrón espacial es afín al esquema transcultural patrilocal. El artículo se centra en la casa 1 y sus cenizales. Tal vivienda fue excepcional por su larga e ininterrumpida biografía, su mobiliario de barro –con dos poyo…
Current Approaches to Tells in the Prehistoric Old World
Conectividad en la Edad del Bronce del occidente de la península ibérica. Examinando la relación entre sitios y vías pecuarias mediante SIG
Este artículo evalúa de forma crítica una vieja hipótesis de la Prehistoria de la península ibérica que ha quedado sin refutar: la que relaciona los sitios de Cogotas I (1850-1100 cal AC) con la trashumancia. Se propone un experimento en una amplia franja del occidente ibérico coincidente con la denominada Vía de la Plata: la medición con SIG de la distancia lineal entre 176 sitios de Cogotas I y las vías pecuarias, concebidas como síntomas mater…
La aldea del Hierro Inicial del Cerro de San Vicente (Salamanca, España)
Este artculo recoge algunos de los principales resultados de las excavaciones arqueolgicas efectuadas entre 1990 y 2006 en el yacimiento de la Primera Edad del Hierro (800-400 cal AC) del Cerro de San Vicente (Salamanca). El trabajo aborda dos cuestiones mal conocidas, centrndose en las ltimas ocupaciones del asentamiento
Spectroscopic characterization of amphorae from the 8th to the 7th c. BCE found at the Almaraz settlement in Almada, Portugal
Mid-late Holocene environmental and cultural dynamics at the south-west tip of Europe (Doñana National Park, SW Iberia, Spain)
Cultural, Demographic and Environmental Dynamics of the Copper and Early Bronze Age in Iberia (3300–1500 BC)
Robert Chapman & Alison Wylie . Evidential reasoning in archaeology. 2016. ix+254 pages, 30 b&w illustrations. London
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The Earliest villages in Iron Age Iberia (800–400 BC)
The onset of the Iron Age underwent manifold disruptions. The emergence of long-lasting nucleated villages in Iberia c. 900/800 BC best encapsulates such profound changes. This paper draws on the results of excavations over the last few decades at a fortified tell-like settlement in central Iberia: Cerro de San Vicente (Spain). The article focuses on formation dynamics in earth architecture to understand the role of cultural choices in the genesi…
Disentangling the life-cycles of Bronze Age pits
Revolutionary discoveries from Bronze Age Iberia
In the Mediterranean region there are relatively few integrated, specialist research teams enga- ged in long-term and ongoing field- work. One of these rare and productive scientific collaborations is the ASOME ( Arqueoecología Social Mediterránea , or Mediterranean Social Archaeoecology) group from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain. The three volumes under review are authored by this team's lead researchers, and represent the first b…
Regional Demographic Dynamics in the Neolithic Transition in Iberia
Ancestral memories and early medieval landscapes
This paper focuses on early medieval funerary practices from a landscape perspective in central Iberia. Rock‐dug graves constitute the most conspicuous remains in this region, but their informative potential has not yet been realized. The preliminary outcomes of an ongoing research project are presented here. This aims to contextualize such funerary cases by examining a mid‐altitude mountain study‐area. Through the use of intensive archaeological…
Microhistorias de la Prehistoria Reciente en el interior de la Península Ibérica
Se presentan los presupuestos y resultados de un proyecto de investigación orientado a caracterizar los ciclos formativos del registro arqueológico en la Prehistoria Reciente mesete.a. Frente a las lecturas generalistas predominantes se propone una aproximación inductiva y particularista, de microescala. El análisis, dise.ado como un estudio de caso múltiple, se aplicó a las colecciones cerámicas de ocho sitios (asentamientos, campos de hoyos, mo…
Emulación decorativa y cerámicas ancestrales. Posibles fuentes de inspiración de las alfareras meseteñas de la Edad del Bronce
This paper explores decorative resemblances between Neolithic and Chalcolithic ceramics and pottery in the Cogotas i style –Later Bronze Age–. A diachronic approach from the Early Neolithic allows tracking a series of recurring ornamental motifs and techniques throughout later prehistory: comparable geometric themes, the deployment of stab-and-drag –Boquique– and excision techniques and smearing of white inlays. In order to account for such analo…
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
Searching for traces of human activity in earthen floor sequences
The Northern Iberian Plateau during the Early Iron Age witnessed the proliferation of villages, showcasing well-preserved earthen architectural remains that offer valuable insights into past daily life practices. However, the application of high-resolution geoarchaeological approaches to these contexts has been largely overlooked, despite their significance in assessing complex sedimentary sequences predominantly composed of earth-based construct…
Death, Relics, and the Demise of Huts
This paper addresses the formation processes at an unparalleled Bronze Age settlement in the Iberian Meseta. The site of El Cerro (Burgos, Spain) presents a series of challenging features: the simultaneous inhumation of three subadults alongside a dwelling quarter and adjacent pits, some of them filled with apparent formality, including such anachronistic elements as Neolithic and Beaker items and several placed deposits, such as a leg of a cow. …
Tracking the social lives of things
Pottery has sometimes been compared to a living organism in its cycle of birth, life and death or discard. A biographical approach to an unusual assemblage of pottery from the Late Bronze Age site of Pico Castro in central Spain suggests that they had been used together at a communal feast. The shared social memory that they acquired thereby conferred on them a special status that resulted in their eventual placement in the pit, fine wares and co…
Práctica social, memoria y ritual en Cogotas I
Este artículo se aproxima al ámbito ritual y simbólico de Cogotas I atendiendo a las prácticas sociales partícipes de su realidad material. Partiendo de algunos confusos tópicos historiográficos, se presenta un marco sociológico más relacional e inclusivo, inspirado en propuestas no positivistas. Se resalta la peculiar relación “histórica” e interactiva mantenida por tales comunidades con su pasado, así como la importancia de las actividades coti…
Disentangling the life-cycles of Bronze Age pits
Cuatro enterramientos calcolíticos en hoyo del Cerro de la Cabeza (Ávila)
This paper presents a thorough description of four pit burials dated to the Copper Age and recovered during the rescueexcavation of a pit site. The lot consists of a multiple pit burial containing six individuals with clear proofs of violenceplus three other single pit burials. The inhumation was the funerary treatment followed in all cases and proofs of secondaryburial have been also documented. Data on material culture, physical anthropology, p…
Mid-late Holocene environmental and cultural dynamics at the south-west tip of Europe (Doñana National Park, SW Iberia, Spain)
Medieval landscapes in the Spanish Central System (450–1350)
This paper presents a long-term synthetic overview of the socio-ecological dynamics responsible for the shaping of present-day rural landscapes in the Spanish Central System. Available historical and palaeoenvironmental records have been compiled and cross-referenced to characterise key transformations unfolding in this mountainous macro-region during the medieval time span. A sharp deforestation of upland pines and midland oaks was due to extens…
Rutinas caseras o fiestas comunitarias? Tafonomía y remontaje de la cerámica calcolítica de El Ventorro (Madrid)
The understanding of how cultural remains entered the archaeological record has been a neglected topic in the research on later prehistory in Iberia, even though its discussion should be addressed in advance of any functional or spatial account. This paper presents an analytical protocol designed to characterize the patterns of breakage, abrasion and representation of prehistoric pottery. A taphonomic and re-fitting operation has been carried out…
Matching sherds to vessels through ceramic petrography
A new method for identifying sherd refits
Here we present a flexible, quantitative methodology for refitting handmade ceramics. Rather than analyzing the physical joins between sherds, we assess the likelihood that non-adjoining sherds of similar appearance are from the same vessel. The customary disregard of non-adjoining sherds in refitting experiments prompts us to address this issue. Using the Neolithic ceramic assemblage from Thirlings (Northumberland, U.K.) as a case study, we test…
Fire use and waste management in an Iberian Iron Age village
Early Iron Age village in Northern Iberia, with middens and earthen dwellings. • High-resolution geoarchaeological techniques are applied to midden deposits. • Maintenance practices (rake-out, cleaning, building) result in the formation of middens. • Spatial differences in waste disposal practices are documented. Middens, commonly found in archaeological sites across different chronologies, serve as rich sedimentary archives of daily life by capt…
Iron Age Connectivity Revealed by an Assemblage of Egyptian Faience in Central Iberia
Research concerning transactions in the early first millennium bc in the westernmost Mediterranean has tended to focus on colonial coastlands occupied by scattered Levantine outposts, whereas cross-cultural interactions in hinterland regions have remained ill-defined. This article presents an assemblage of Egyptian vitreous artefacts, namely beads, a Hathor amulet, and further items from the seventh-century bc rural village of Cerro de San Vicent…
Un singular ambiente doméstico del Hierro I en el interior de la península ibérica
Se presentan los resultados de las excavaciones (2006, 2017 y 2021) en un sector de la aldea del Hierro I del Cerro de San Vicente (Salamanca). Se ha exhumado un agregado informal de edificios y estructuras adjetivas de adobe cuyo patrón espacial es afín al esquema transcultural patrilocal. El artículo se centra en la casa 1 y sus cenizales. Tal vivienda fue excepcional por su larga e ininterrumpida biografía, su mobiliario de barro –con dos poyo…
Spectroscopic characterization of amphorae from the 8th to the 7th c. BCE found at the Almaraz settlement in Almada, Portugal
Unconventional Prehistoric Worlds
The Cogotas I culture (c. 1800–1150 cal. bc) is an unusual test case in Bronze Age Europe with its incomplete definition due to empirical and epistemological difficulties. The idiosyncratic materiality of those small-scale communities is poorly understood because of its unexpected nature. The characteristic evidence is limited to formal deposits and accumulations of secondary residues whose survival was decisively driven by prehistoric social pra…
Past fragments
Sunken features backfilled with domestic refuse represent the prevailing depositional context-type in later prehistory worldwide. Despite being so, this evidence remains poorly understood and has only received sporadic attention, chiefly within Anglophone archaeologies. This paper focuses on ceramics from a suite of such intricate contexts (cut features, burials, settlements, barrows) from Iberia in a diachronic and comparative perspective, from …
Evocative Monuments in the Late 3rd Millennium BC
This paper challenges customary archaeological accounts of non-megalithic tumuli during the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age. Because of their wide range of regional and chronological variability across Atlantic Europe, rigid interpretative templates based on restrictive Western concepts such as ‘domestic’ or ‘funerary’ become inadequate. The analysis of several well-documented case studies in the Central Meseta (Iberia) through a programme of f…
Dynamics of pioneer colonisation in the Early Iron Age in the Duero basin (Central Iberia, Spain)
This study addresses the earliest strategies of permanent occupation in the mountainous regions bordering Northern Meseta in inland Iberia. This piece of work gathers together and discusses archaeological information about settlement in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age and previously published high-resolution palynological cores from three study areas. Its major goal is to assess both archaeological and pollen records in order to gain a bet…
From Huts to ‘The House’
This paper focuses on the domestic realm in Late Prehistory in inland Iberia. A diachronic study of living quarters reveals two organizational approaches based on very different principles. The Bronze Age societies consisted of ephemeral family units: their huts are scattered, being relocated completely and regularly about every decade. From 800 BC onward, nucleated and permanent villages are formed: they are centred around ‘the house’. This is a…
Arqueología doméstica del Hierro I meseteño
En este trabajo se presentan los resultados de la campaña de 2018 en la aldea del Hierro I del Cerro de San Vicente. El trabajo de campo conllevó una prospección previa con georradar (GPR) y la verificación de sus resultados preliminares mediante una cata de 200 m2, centrada en una segunda fase en los 64 m2 donde se centraban las anomalías. Se ha identificado una vivienda de planta circular, cuya trayectoria de uso muestra una biografía intercala…
Mobile craftspeople and orientalising transculturation in seventh-century BC Iberia
During the early first millennium BC, Phoenician peoples settled the Iberian coasts instigating cultural innovations known as the orientalising; indigenous communities of the interior have long been considered as passively dependent on, or isolated from, these developments. Recent excavations at the Early Iron Age village of Cerro de San Vicente in central Spain, however, have yielded domestic contexts that prompt reconsideration of this relation…
Ancestral memories and early medieval landscapes
This paper focuses on early medieval funerary practices from a landscape perspective in central Iberia. Rock‐dug graves constitute the most conspicuous remains in this region, but their informative potential has not yet been realized. The preliminary outcomes of an ongoing research project are presented here. This aims to contextualize such funerary cases by examining a mid‐altitude mountain study‐area. Through the use of intensive archaeological…
Ocupación y uso del territorio en el sector centromeridional de la cuenca del Duero entre la Antigüedad y la alta Edad Media (siglos I-XI d.C.)
Los autores plantean una lectura de síntesis sobre las dinámicas de asentamiento y explotación de los territorios comprendidos entre el Sistema Central y las campiñas al sur del río Duero entre la implantación romana y los momentos altomedievales. Para estudiar el poblamiento se ha recurrido a los datos de prospección extensiva de los inventarios provinciales, con el concurso de los resultados de recientes excavaciones en yacimientos rurales y ur…
Landscape and climatic changes during the end of the Late Prehistory in the Amblés Valley (Ávila, central Spain), from 1200 to 400cal BC
A Estação Paleolítica da Praia da Aguda (Arcozelo, Vila Nova de Gaia). Notícia preliminar
A existência de materiais líticos paleolíticos no litoral do Porto e de Vila Nova de Gaia é conhecida, pelomenos, desde os finais do século XIX. A partir de 1987, trabalhos de prospecção neste último concelhoconduziram à descoberta do sítio do Cerro (freguesia da Madalena), escavado em 1989 e em 1992. Taisescavações permitiram a recolha de uma indústria técnica e tipologicamente conectável com o Acheulense.A estação paleolítica da Praia da Aguda …
From Huts to ‘The House’
This paper focuses on the domestic realm in Late Prehistory in inland Iberia. A diachronic study of living quarters reveals two organizational approaches based on very different principles. The Bronze Age societies consisted of ephemeral family units: their huts are scattered, being relocated completely and regularly about every decade. From 800 BC onward, nucleated and permanent villages are formed: they are centred around ‘the house’. This is a…
Práctica social, memoria y ritual en Cogotas I
Este artículo se aproxima al ámbito ritual y simbólico de Cogotas I atendiendo a las prácticas sociales partícipes de su realidad material. Partiendo de algunos confusos tópicos historiográficos, se presenta un marco sociológico más relacional e inclusivo, inspirado en propuestas no positivistas. Se resalta la peculiar relación “histórica” e interactiva mantenida por tales comunidades con su pasado, así como la importancia de las actividades coti…
Cuatro enterramientos calcolíticos en hoyo del Cerro de la Cabeza (Ávila)
This paper presents a thorough description of four pit burials dated to the Copper Age and recovered during the rescueexcavation of a pit site. The lot consists of a multiple pit burial containing six individuals with clear proofs of violenceplus three other single pit burials. The inhumation was the funerary treatment followed in all cases and proofs of secondaryburial have been also documented. Data on material culture, physical anthropology, p…
Dynamics of pioneer colonisation in the Early Iron Age in the Duero basin (Central Iberia, Spain)
This study addresses the earliest strategies of permanent occupation in the mountainous regions bordering Northern Meseta in inland Iberia. This piece of work gathers together and discusses archaeological information about settlement in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age and previously published high-resolution palynological cores from three study areas. Its major goal is to assess both archaeological and pollen records in order to gain a bet…
Revisiting the Chalcolithic site of El Ventorro (Madrid, Spain). Ceramic Re-fitting and Taphonomy
Monumental ditches and Bell Beakers are two key phenomena in later prehistoric Europe involved in the study of El Ventorro, near Madrid. In this article, we discuss and develop an analytical protocol for a thorough characterisation of the patterns of breakage, abrasion, and representation of ceramics. The procedure is tested with a large ceramic sample from ‘Pithouse 013’, an unusually rich context which challenges stereotypical accounts of the d…
Vegetation history, climate and human impact in the Spanish Central System over the last 9000 years
Medieval landscapes in the Spanish Central System (450–1350)
This paper presents a long-term synthetic overview of the socio-ecological dynamics responsible for the shaping of present-day rural landscapes in the Spanish Central System. Available historical and palaeoenvironmental records have been compiled and cross-referenced to characterise key transformations unfolding in this mountainous macro-region during the medieval time span. A sharp deforestation of upland pines and midland oaks was due to extens…
Rutinas caseras o fiestas comunitarias? Tafonomía y remontaje de la cerámica calcolítica de El Ventorro (Madrid)
The understanding of how cultural remains entered the archaeological record has been a neglected topic in the research on later prehistory in Iberia, even though its discussion should be addressed in advance of any functional or spatial account. This paper presents an analytical protocol designed to characterize the patterns of breakage, abrasion and representation of prehistoric pottery. A taphonomic and re-fitting operation has been carried out…
Matching sherds to vessels through ceramic petrography
A new method for identifying sherd refits
Here we present a flexible, quantitative methodology for refitting handmade ceramics. Rather than analyzing the physical joins between sherds, we assess the likelihood that non-adjoining sherds of similar appearance are from the same vessel. The customary disregard of non-adjoining sherds in refitting experiments prompts us to address this issue. Using the Neolithic ceramic assemblage from Thirlings (Northumberland, U.K.) as a case study, we test…
Sitios en altura y vasijas rotas
Este artículo plantea un ejercicio de autocrítica sobre la comprensión actual del final de Cogotas I en el interior de la Península Ibérica. Diversas dinámicas socio-políticas postuladas para este contexto como la concentración poblacional, la especialización artesanal o la jerarquización social suscitan problemas interpretativos por su deficiente engranaje con la evidencia aducida. Se reúne y escudriña la información contextual disponible sobre …
Death, Relics, and the Demise of Huts
This paper addresses the formation processes at an unparalleled Bronze Age settlement in the Iberian Meseta. The site of El Cerro (Burgos, Spain) presents a series of challenging features: the simultaneous inhumation of three subadults alongside a dwelling quarter and adjacent pits, some of them filled with apparent formality, including such anachronistic elements as Neolithic and Beaker items and several placed deposits, such as a leg of a cow. …
Evocative Monuments in the Late 3rd Millennium BC
This paper challenges customary archaeological accounts of non-megalithic tumuli during the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age. Because of their wide range of regional and chronological variability across Atlantic Europe, rigid interpretative templates based on restrictive Western concepts such as ‘domestic’ or ‘funerary’ become inadequate. The analysis of several well-documented case studies in the Central Meseta (Iberia) through a programme of f…
Tracking the social lives of things
Pottery has sometimes been compared to a living organism in its cycle of birth, life and death or discard. A biographical approach to an unusual assemblage of pottery from the Late Bronze Age site of Pico Castro in central Spain suggests that they had been used together at a communal feast. The shared social memory that they acquired thereby conferred on them a special status that resulted in their eventual placement in the pit, fine wares and co…
Emulación decorativa y cerámicas ancestrales. Posibles fuentes de inspiración de las alfareras meseteñas de la Edad del Bronce
This paper explores decorative resemblances between Neolithic and Chalcolithic ceramics and pottery in the Cogotas i style –Later Bronze Age–. A diachronic approach from the Early Neolithic allows tracking a series of recurring ornamental motifs and techniques throughout later prehistory: comparable geometric themes, the deployment of stab-and-drag –Boquique– and excision techniques and smearing of white inlays. In order to account for such analo…
Unconventional Prehistoric Worlds
The Cogotas I culture (c. 1800–1150 cal. bc) is an unusual test case in Bronze Age Europe with its incomplete definition due to empirical and epistemological difficulties. The idiosyncratic materiality of those small-scale communities is poorly understood because of its unexpected nature. The characteristic evidence is limited to formal deposits and accumulations of secondary residues whose survival was decisively driven by prehistoric social pra…
Recent developments in later prehistoric Iberia
In contrast to the well-known Palaeolithic archaeology of Iberia and its contribution to scholarly debates on the earliest Europeans, the later prehistory (c. 5600-400 BC) of the peninsula remains a relatively unknown subject for the wider world. The three recent volumes under review therefore provide the opportunity to outline current trends in research on the first farmers at the westernmost end of Europe and to assess what these contribute to …
Past fragments
Sunken features backfilled with domestic refuse represent the prevailing depositional context-type in later prehistory worldwide. Despite being so, this evidence remains poorly understood and has only received sporadic attention, chiefly within Anglophone archaeologies. This paper focuses on ceramics from a suite of such intricate contexts (cut features, burials, settlements, barrows) from Iberia in a diachronic and comparative perspective, from …
Regional Demographic Dynamics in the Neolithic Transition in Iberia
Ancestral memories and early medieval landscapes
This paper focuses on early medieval funerary practices from a landscape perspective in central Iberia. Rock‐dug graves constitute the most conspicuous remains in this region, but their informative potential has not yet been realized. The preliminary outcomes of an ongoing research project are presented here. This aims to contextualize such funerary cases by examining a mid‐altitude mountain study‐area. Through the use of intensive archaeological…
Microhistorias de la Prehistoria Reciente en el interior de la Península Ibérica
Se presentan los presupuestos y resultados de un proyecto de investigación orientado a caracterizar los ciclos formativos del registro arqueológico en la Prehistoria Reciente mesete.a. Frente a las lecturas generalistas predominantes se propone una aproximación inductiva y particularista, de microescala. El análisis, dise.ado como un estudio de caso múltiple, se aplicó a las colecciones cerámicas de ocho sitios (asentamientos, campos de hoyos, mo…
Robert Chapman & Alison Wylie . Evidential reasoning in archaeology. 2016. ix+254 pages, 30 b&w illustrations. London
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