Factionalism and collective labor in Copper Age Iberia

Río, Pedro Díaz del

doi:10.3989/tp.2004.v61.i2.44

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“…Their precocious growth, and rapid decline, is explained as the result of political factionalism (Díaz-del-Río 2004). Their precocious growth, and rapid decline, is explained as the result of political factionalism (Díaz-del-Río 2004).…”

Section: The Final Neolithic and The First Transformation Of Europementioning

confidence: 99%

The Transformation of Europe in the Third Millennium BC: the example of ‘Le Petit-Chasseur I + III’ (Sion, Valais, Switzerland)

Harrison¹,

Heyd²

2007

Praehistorische Zeitschrift

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Die megalithischen Grabanlagen von Sion-'LePetit Chasseur I+III' bieten eine einmalige Chance, Strukturen von sozialem Wandel über fast das gesamte 3. Jahrtausend v. Chr. hinweg kontinuierlich zu verfolgen und aufzuzeigen, wie eine lokale Bevölkerung die europaweiten ideologischen Veränderungen dieser Zeit rezipiert. Unsere Analyse der Funeralbauten, der anthropomorphen Stelen und der materiellen Hinterlassenschaften (die als drei unterschiedliche Quellengruppen anzusehen sind) führen uns das Ringen zwischen Tradition und Innovation vor Augen sowie die sukzessiven Adaptionen einer lokalen spätneolithischen Bevölkerung an die verschiedenen Zweige der Glockenbecher-Ideologie und dann der Frühbronzezeit. In der Folge vergleichen wir Sion mit der ähnlich strukturierten Fundstelle von Aosta-'St.Martin-de-Corléans' und stellen beide Komplexe in den weiteren europäischen Rahmen des 3. Jahrtausends v. Chr. Dieser Vergleich beginnt mit der Einwanderung von Jamnaja-Bevölkerungen der nordpontischen Steppen nach Ost-und Südosteuropa und endet mit der Entstehung des Glockenbecher-Phänomens im Westen der Iberischen Halbinsel. Dies alles ist Inhalt eines weiten Transformationshorizonts der Zeit zwischen 2900 und 2700 v. Chr. Spezifische Innovationen darin werden beschrieben und analysiert. Les monuments funéraires mégalithiques de Sion-«Petit-Chasseur I+III» offrent une chance unique de suivre en continu des mutations sociales durant presque tout le 3 e millénaire av. J.-C. et de démontrer comme une population locale assimile les changements idéologiques contemporains survenus dans toute l'Europe. L'analyse des constructions funéraires, des stèles anthropomorphes et des vestiges matériels (à considérer comme trois groupes de sources distincts) révèle la lutte entre tradition et innovation ainsi que les adaptations successives de la population du Néolithique tardif aux différents courants de l'idéologie campaniforme, puis de celle du Bronze ancien. Par la suite, Sion est comparé au site d'Aoste-«St. Martin-de-Corléans», de structure similaire, et les deux ensembles sont replacés dans le cadre européen du 3 e millénaire av. J.-C. Cette comparaison débute avec l'immigration en Europe orientale et méridionale de populations jamnaja des steppes situées au nord de la mer Noire et s'achève avec l'émergence du phénomène campaniforme dans l'ouest de la péninsule ibérique. Tout ceci fait partie d'un vaste horizon de transformation situé entre 2900 et 2700 av. J.-C. Des innovations spécifiques de cette période sont décrites et analysées. The megalithic cemetery of Sion-'Le Petit Chasseur I+III' offers a unique chance to analyse patterns of social change throughout most of the third millennium BC, and to demonstrate how a local population adjusts to the pan-European ideological changes of that period. Our analysis of the funeral monuments, the anthropomorphic stelae, and the material remains (which form three independent Quellengruppen) shows the tensions between tradition and innovation, and the successive adaptions of a local Late Neolit...

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Section: The Final Neolithic and The First Transformation Of Europementioning

confidence: 99%

The Transformation of Europe in the Third Millennium BC: the example of ‘Le Petit-Chasseur I + III’ (Sion, Valais, Switzerland)

Harrison¹,

Heyd²

2007

Praehistorische Zeitschrift

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“…Since there is no data on the extent, morphology, or internal organization that 3rd-millennium El Gandul may have had, it is difficult to see how one can attribute to it a role as a "political centre" (López Aldana and Pajuelo Pando 2001: 216 and 221) or indeed make any other interpretation about its political status. Exactly the same problem arises with the analogous interpretation of Carmona, where, despite recent new light of the Copper Age occupation (Conlin Hayes 2003, 2004, there are no data of sufficient precision to permit such broad interpretations.…”

Section: Social Inequality Social Complexity Social Stratificationmentioning

confidence: 92%

The Copper Age Settlement of Valencina de la Concepción (Seville, Spain): Demography, Metallurgy and Spatial Organization

Caramé

Bonilla²,

Sanjuán

et al. 2010

Trab. prehist.

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This paper presents the results obtained from a review of the archaeological record available for the prehistoric site of Valencina de la Concepción (Seville, Spain), one of the most important settlements of SW Iberia in the 3 rd and 2 nd millennia BC. Two main variables, namely demography and metallurgical production, are examined in the light of both conventional and spatial statistical methods (with particular emphasis on significance testing) with the aim of assessing the wider issue of social complexity. Among the various conclusions emerging from this empirical study, two stand out. Firstly, neither the correlation between the total extension of the settlement and the complexity of its internal organisation, nor the spatial delimitation between domestic/productive and funerary practices is as straightforward as previously claimed. Secondly, no simple, clear-cut statistical patterns are found in the spatial distribution of human remains or metal objects. These conclusions provide the basis for a critique of currently held interpretations of Valencina de la Concepción as the political centre of an early state extending across the lower Guadalquivir valley. RESUMEN

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“…At Marroquíes Bajos, initial bioarchaeological analyses suggest that mortuary treatment was not restricted by age or sex, but that burial may have been related to membership in lineages or sodalities (Beck 2015). Díaz-del-Río (2004) has suggested that friction between these sorts of groups led to the eventual collapse of the site. Through examining inter-individual and spatial variability in diet through carbon and nitrogen isotope analyses, regional affiliation and mobility through strontium analyses, and diachronic change through radiocarbon dating of human bone, ongoing bioarchaeological research has the potential to reveal whether the dissonance preserved in the archaeological record is rooted in individual inequalities in lived experience.…”

Section: Spainmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Marroquíes Bajos is characterized by an impressive degree of communal labor investment in architectural features, including the five concentric ditches and the 2 km long adobe wall that demarcate the boundaries of the site. The settlement also includes at least seven different mortuary areas (Zafra de la Torre et al 1999, Díaz-del-Río 2004 (Figure 2). The large spatial scale, more complex internal organization, and significant labor investment in site architecture at the 113 hectare Marroquíes Bajos suggest that a degree of social restructuring was necessary to found and maintain the first 'matrix villages' in southern Iberia.…”

Section: Spainmentioning

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Essential Tensions: A Framework for Exploring Inequality Through Mortuary Archaeology and Bioarchaeology

Quinn

Beck

2016

Open Archaeology

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Research on the emergence of institutionalized inequality has traditionally maintained an analytical divide between lived institutions that affect daily life and performed institutions materialized in mortuary contexts. Here, we argue that convergence or divergence between lived and performed contexts reveals key aspects of past social organization. When combined, mortuary archaeology and bioarchaeology provide a methodological framework well suited to evaluate the coherence or dissonance of such institutions. Three case studies from prehistoric Europe highlight how new insights gained by studying tension between institutions, identities and experiences across social dimensions can transform our understanding of the development of institutionalized inequality. "These squat buildings, constructed with huge boulders, are in fact very durable. This is obvious in the many abandoned villages where the houses have disappeared but the tombs are still standing. They are the symbols of the association of their builders with the village where they are situated, an unchanging association with an unchanging order. They are in this way the denial of the fluidity of Merina society and indeed of all the societies of the living. They are an assertion of an order where men are organized along clear-cut lines. In other words, they are the demonstration of what the Merina feels his society was and ought to be"(Bloch 1968:101, emphasis ours).

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Factionalism and collective labor in Copper Age Iberia

Cited by 33 publications

References 30 publications

The Transformation of Europe in the Third Millennium BC: the example of ‘Le Petit-Chasseur I + III’ (Sion, Valais, Switzerland)

The Transformation of Europe in the Third Millennium BC: the example of ‘Le Petit-Chasseur I + III’ (Sion, Valais, Switzerland)

The Copper Age Settlement of Valencina de la Concepción (Seville, Spain): Demography, Metallurgy and Spatial Organization

Essential Tensions: A Framework for Exploring Inequality Through Mortuary Archaeology and Bioarchaeology

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