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Título
Death, Relics, and the Demise of Huts: Patterns of Planned Abandonment in Middle BA Central Iberia
Autor(es)
Materia
Middle Bronze Age
Iberia
Deposition
Site formation processes
Deviant burial
Fragmentation
Clasificación UNESCO
5504.05 Prehistoria
5505.01 Arqueología
Fecha de publicación
2016-04-01
Citación
Sánchez-Polo, A., Blanco-González, A. (2014). Death, Relics, and the Demise of Huts: Patterns of Planned Abandonment in Middle BA Central Iberia. European Journal of Archaeology, 17(1), 4-26
Resumen
[EN]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. A critical evaluation of the contextual dataset, a re-fitting
operation, and an assessment of the abrasion and size of a ceramic sample were carried out. The archaeological
peculiarities of the site are explained as a contextually specific cultural response to a grievous
and traumatic episode: the death of three young siblings, which entailed the abandonment of the settlement
through prescribed practices. Some depositions are a product of recognizable intentionality, while
others are regarded as unintended cumulative outcomes.
URI
ISSN
1461-9571
DOI
10.1179/1461957113Y.0000000048
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