Bell Beakers in central Iberia: keeping the ancestors’ memory alive
Studies on the Bell Beaker horizon carried out in recent years in Central Iberia sites, such as Camino de las Yeseras, have led us to observe certain human behaviours and traditions, among other aspects many of them novel in relation to funerary rites. Extraction and movement of human bones and part...
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Préhistoires méditerranéennes
2021
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| Summary: | Studies on the Bell Beaker horizon carried out in recent years in Central Iberia sites, such as Camino de las Yeseras, have led us to observe certain human behaviours and traditions, among other aspects many of them novel in relation to funerary rites. Extraction and movement of human bones and part of the grave goods from one tomb to another, or to a domestic structure, is documented in Camino de las Yeseras for several times, as the studies in this site covered a long time span and several research projects. To this day, we have been able to document certain patterns of these movements. The opening of tombs and the removal of human remains and grave goods to be deposited in other places of the settlements as heirlooms, takes us to a world in which the ancestors were probably present in daily life. |
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