2017
DOI: 10.1007/s10963-017-9107-6
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The Mega-Site of Valencina de la Concepción (Seville, Spain): Debating Settlement Form, Monumentality and Aggregation in Southern Iberian Copper Age Societies

Abstract: Study of the Iberian Copper Age has experienced a remarkable upheaval in the last two decades. The discovery in central and southwestern Iberia of a significant number of ditched enclosures, a site type almost unknown in this region until the mid-1990s, has opened up new lines of research. Particularly interesting is the existence of some exceptionally large sites. Largest of all is Valencina de la Concepción (Seville, Spain), covering an area of 450ha and featuring several outstanding megalithic monuments, th… Show more

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“…From ~ 4500 cal BP onwards, settlements diversified ( Fig. 6b (Escacena and De Frutos, 1986;García Sanjuán and Hurtado, 1997;García-Sanz and Fernández-Jurado, 1999;Belén et al, 2000;Pérez-Macías et al, 2002;Abril, 2003;García-Rivero and Escacena, 2015;Garrido and Vera, 2015;García Sanjuán et al, 2017). At this time numerous Copper Age settlements stood at the mouth of the Guadalquivir river on the eastern edge of the DNP marshes Roos, 1992, 1995;Fig.…”
Section: 1mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…From ~ 4500 cal BP onwards, settlements diversified ( Fig. 6b (Escacena and De Frutos, 1986;García Sanjuán and Hurtado, 1997;García-Sanz and Fernández-Jurado, 1999;Belén et al, 2000;Pérez-Macías et al, 2002;Abril, 2003;García-Rivero and Escacena, 2015;Garrido and Vera, 2015;García Sanjuán et al, 2017). At this time numerous Copper Age settlements stood at the mouth of the Guadalquivir river on the eastern edge of the DNP marshes Roos, 1992, 1995;Fig.…”
Section: 1mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In contrast, more habitation sites are known for the second half of the fourth millennium and the third millennium cal bc . This is also seen in most of the continent and attests more complex population dynamics (Díaz del Río, ; García Sanjuán, Scarre, & Wheatley, ; Parkinson & Duffy, ). Sites covering several hectares are known in both Extremadura and Alentejo, some of them including sepulchres (Odriozola Lloret & Hurtado Pérez, ; Valera, ).…”
Section: The Record From Late Prehistory In South‐western Iberiamentioning
confidence: 71%
“…Some extend over very large areas, such as Valencina de la Concepción (Sevilla) (450 ha) , La Pijotilla (Badajoz) (80 ha) (Hurtado 1997 Torrão (Beja) (70 ha) (Arnaud 1993;Valera and Filipe 2004). Marroquíes Bajos (Jaén) (113 ha) has been considered a 'macro-village' (Zafra et al 1999;Aranda et al 2016), while Valencina has been called a mega-site (García Sanjuán et al 2017). Yet, even smaller sites, such as Perdigões (Évora) (>16 ha) (Valera et al 2014), Alcalar (Faro) (20 ha) (Morán 2010), and Camino de las Yeseras (Madrid) (20 ha) (Blasco et al 2007), suggest that a significant workforce was mobilized to construct them (Díaz-del-Río 2004).…”
Section: Copper Age -3 Rd Millennium Bcmentioning
confidence: 99%