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The Tagus Middle Basin (Iberian Peninsula) from the Neolithic to the Iron Age (V‐I Millennium Cal. BC): The Long Way to Social Complexity
Author(s) -
Muñoz LóezAstilleros Kenia
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
oxford journal of archaeology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.382
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1468-0092
pISSN - 0262-5253
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0092.00109
Subject(s) - peninsula , prehistory , archaeology , iron age , structural basin , context (archaeology) , geography , excavation , archaeological record , human settlement , geology , paleontology
This study is the result of surveys and excavations carried out in a selected area of the middle basin of the Tagus river (Southern Meseta, Iberian Peninsula). The analysis of palaeoecological data, material assemblages, settlement patterns, domestic structures, funerary evidence and socio‐economic context in the regional archaeological record from the Neolithic (5000 BC) to the beginning of the Iron Age (500 BC) allows us to identify several long‐term historic processes; particularly, two habitational, demographic and socio‐economic cycles, which contradict the traditional idea that the prehistory of inner Iberia presents almost no apparent change during these four millennia.