Un défi à l'éternité : genèse et réutilisations du tumulus de La Sima (Miño de Medinaceli, Soria, Espagne)

Guerra, Manuel Rojo

doi:10.3406/pica.2003.2644

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“…With the excavation of the burial monuments of La Peña de La Abuela, and the La Sima Barrows in the Ambrona Valley (Fig. 1), between 1994 and 2002, it has been possible to define a new and complex burial type that we have called the ‘lime‐kiln tomb’ (Rojo and Kunst 1999a; 1999b; 1999c; Rojo et al. 2002; 2003; 2005c).…”

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“…The location is very similar to that of the previous site, on a natural elevation at the foot of the Paramo highlands but also near a small lagoon. It is a rather complex burial monument with three different phases (Rojo et al. 2003, chapter III; 2005c): in the beginning, it was another ‘lime‐kiln tomb’, very similar to and contemporary with La Peña (Sima I phase).…”

Section: The Ambrona Valley Sitesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Tombs for the Dead, Monuments to Eternity: The Deliberate Destruction of Megalithic Graves by Fire in the Interior Highlands of Iberia (Soria Province, Spain)

Rojo-Guerra¹,

Garrido‐Pena

Lagrán³

2010

Oxford Journal of Archaeology

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Summary An interpretation of the features surrounding the complex and deliberate closure ritual in several collective Middle Neolithic tombs of the Ambrona Valley (Soria) is offered, where fire and quicklime played a major role in the rituals. The problems involved in the excavation and the understanding of this complex burial evidence are examined. The roles they might have played in the context of the important social and economic transformations of the local Neolithic groups around the end of the fourth millennium cal BC are also analysed. It is argued that the burial rituals tried to reinforce group solidarity at a time when the community was beginning to fragment, as the economic systems began to yield a surplus production whose management would have altered political structures.

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confidence: 99%

Section: The Ambrona Valley Sitesmentioning

confidence: 99%