Earliest evidence of Neolithic collective burials from Eastern Iberia: Radiocarbon dating at the archaeolgoical site of Les Llometes (Alicante, Spain)
| Autor: | María Paz De Miguel-Ibáñez, Domingo C. Salazar-García, Sahra Talamo, Oreto García-Puchol |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Salazar-Garcia D.C., Garcia-Puchol O., de Miguel-Ibanez M.P., Talamo S. |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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010506 paleontology
Archeology Minimum number of individuals Restes humanes (Arqueologia) 01 natural sciences Natural (archaeology) law.invention Prehistory Cave law Kinship 0601 history and archaeology AMS Human burial Radiocarbon dating 0105 earth and related environmental sciences geography geography.geographical_feature_category 060102 archaeology Excavation 06 humanities and the arts Chalcolithic Archaeology Late Neolithic General Earth and Planetary Sciences Iberia |
| Zdroj: | Salazar García, Domingo Carlos García Puchol, Oreto Talamo, Sahra Miguel-Ibáñez, María Paz de 2016 Earliest evidence of Neolithic collective burials from Eastern Iberia: Radiocarbon dating at the archaeolgoical site of Les Llometes (Alicante, Spain) Radiocarbon 1 14 RODERIC. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat de Valéncia instname Radiocarbon |
| Popis: | In the Valencia region of Spain, the dominant use of natural caves for collective burials during the Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods has been documented. Collective burials are central to the hypothesis about social relationships in Copper Age societies from Iberia, and key to interpreting kinship-based societies. Les Llometes (Alcoi, Alicante) is one of the biggest collective burial sites existing in eastern Iberia. This article presents the direct14C dates on 25 skeletal remains at the site. The results indicate that the site was used as a burial place from the end of the 5th millennium cal BC until the end of the 4th millennium cal BC, and is a first milestone for future studies that will shed light on the transition towards social structure through the use of a cemetery space. Moreover, this research is one of the few investigations of Late Neolithic collective burials in Iberia that comprises an extensive accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS)14C data set of almost all the individuals reported at a single site. This case also serves to highlight the utility of revisiting materials from historic excavations by14C dating all the skeletal remains that define the minimum number of individuals, and therefore ensuring a more complete picture of the prehistoric human record. |
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