New objects in old structures. The Iron Age hoard of the Palacio III megalithic funerary complex (Almadén de la Plata, Seville, Spain)

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ID21081968
AutoresM Murillo-Barroso (0000-0002-2271-291X, Museum of London Archaeology, autor correspondente), Marcos Martinón-Torres (0000-0003-2124-2837, Museum of London Archaeology), Leonardo García Sanjuán (0000-0002-8404-9252, Universidad de Sevilla), David Wheatley (0000-0002-6753-2867), David W Wheatley (0000-0002-7265-704X, University of Southampton), Marcos Andrés Hunt Ortiz (0000-0002-8783-6913, Universidad de Sevilla), Matilde Forteza González (0000-0003-0110-3071, Universidad de Sevilla), María Jesús Hernández Arnedo (0000-0001-8094-0155, Universidad de Sevilla)
Ano2015
Volume57
Páginas322-334
Data de publicação2015-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Archaeological Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0305-4403 • E-ISSN: 1095-9238
EditoraElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.jas.2015.03.013
OpenAlexW2057134243
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas13

Cultural contact, exchange and interaction feature high in the list of challenging topics of current research on European Prehistory. Not far off is the issue of the changing role of monuments in the making and maintaining of key cultural devices such as memory and identity. Addressing both these highly-debated issues from a science-based perspective, in this paper we look at an unusual case study set in southern Iberia and illustrate how these archaeological questions can benefit from robust materials-science approaches. We present the contextual, morphological and analytical study of an exceptional Early Iron Age hoard composed of a number of different (and mostly exotic) materials such as amber, quartz, silver and ceramic. This hoard, found under the fallen orthostat of a megalithic structure built at least 2000 years earlier, throws new light on long-distance exchange networks and the effect they could have had on the cultural identities and social relations of local Iberian Early Iron Age communities. Moreover, the archaeometric study reveals how diverse and distant the sources of these item are (Northern Europe to Eastern and Western Mediterranean raw materials, as well as local and eastern technologies), therefore raising questions concerning the social mechanisms used to establish change and resistance in contexts of colonial encounter

Ancient history · Archaeology · Colonialism · Ethnology · Geography · Hoard · Iron Age · Megalith · Prehistory · Archaeological and Geological Studies · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · History · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology