A Beaker workshop area in the rock shelter of Son Matge, Mallorca

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4887105
AutoresWilliam H Waldren (Pitt Rivers Museum, autor de correspondencia)
Año1979
Volumen11
Número1
Páginas43-67
Fecha de publicación1979-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaWorld Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0043-8243 • E-ISSN: 1470-1375
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00438243.1979.9979749
OpenAlexW1987950056
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas1

The results of recent investigations in the Balearic Islands offer a great deal of new artefact and chronological information concerning the islands’ early settlement and the external cultural and trade influences that affected them, along with the development of the indigenous technological, economical, social and religious activities during prehistoric times. The current article presents some of the new information emerging from a Beaker workshop area in the Rock Shelter of Son Matge (6°’ 25’ E, 390 35’ N), Valldemosa, Mallorca, which is pertinent to early metal working in the Balearics during the second and first millennia B.C. It also presents chronological evidence in the form of a series of fifteen radiocarbon dates for the local Pretalayotic Period (culture of the caves) from c. 2700 b.c. to 1400 b.c., thirteen of which concern local Beaker contexts. Also included are the first results of electron microscopic analysis on samples of Balearic bronzes, part of a proposed series of some two hundred analyses from various local prehistoric periods

Archaeology · Art · Balearic islands · Beaker · Cartography · Cave · Geography · Indigenous · Megalith · Period (music · Prehistory · Radiocarbon dating · Settlement (finance · Archaeological and Geological Studies · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Ecology · History · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology