出版社:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
摘要:This paper constitutes a self-critical appraisal on the current understanding of the last centuries of the Cogotas I Culture in inland Iberia. Several socio-political processes posited for this context, such as demographic nucleation, craft specialization and social hierarchization fail to match adequately with the evidence used to test them. We compile the available contextual information on Cogotas I hilltop sites so as to assess their formation cycles. As a result, they are interpreted as seasonal aggregation places, the outcome of intermittent and reiterative occupations for ceremonial purposes. In addition, the ‘cultural biographies’ of several ceramic vessels retrieved from pits allow us to track similar prescribed and multi-phase gestures performed during their abandonment both in hilltop sites and in lowland pit sites. Both approaches highlight the unsuitability of any kind of dualistic and simplistic readings of the archaeological record and suggest other possible interpretations.
关键词:Iberia;Meseta;Later Bronze Age;Lowland-hilltop sites duality;Formation processes;Cultural biography;Trabajo realizado dentro del proyecto posdoctoral Past Fragments financiado por la Comisión Europea (Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship 298285) y enmarcado en el programa de investigación “Nuevos hallazgos y nuevas perspectivas en el estudio de los restos humanos del grupo Cogotas I” (HAR 2009-10105 Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación