Los monumentos conocidos como «pedras formosas» en la cultura castreña, junto con un nuevo hallazgo de este tipo identificado en Ulaca (Ávila), deben considerarse como saunas indígenas, relacionados con una referencia de Estrabón (111,3,6). La función de estos baños estaría relacionada con ritos de iniciación de fratrías de guerreros, características de las sociedades indoeuropeas del Bronce Final anteriores a la organización gentilicia, lo que plantea un importante punto de partida para analizar la estructura social e ideológica de la sociedad castreña y sus raíces protocélticas, al mismo tiempo que contribuye a iluminar uno de los capítulos más antiguos de la Historia del Termalismo.In the Castro-Culture of the NW of the Iberian Península and in the oppidunn of Ulaca (Ávila) there is a peculiar type of monuments that can be interpreted as the sweat baths referred by Strabo (111,3,6). The function of such sweat baths must be related to rites of initiation of iuvenes to the warrior class in Indoeuropean society, just before the gentilician organization of the Iron Age. This interpretaron allows a very interesting interpretation of the social and ideological structure of that Castro-Culture society and of its Proto-Celtic origina. But at the same time it illustrates one of the earliest chapters of the History of Thermalism.
Las aguas de algunos yacimientos termales que ofrecen restos arqueológicos y que están relacionados con balnearios actuales o en desuso han sido recogidas con objeto de iniciar el estudio de los tipos de aguas utilizadas en la Antigüedad. El hecho más destacado es el claro predominio en estos yacimientos de aguas sulfuradas e hipertermales.The thermal waters found in connection with archaeological setlements and related with present or past documented thermal baths have been gathered in order to study the types of thermal water used in Antiquity. The most interesting result is the marked preference for sulfuric and hiperthermal waters.
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