El poblado de Alarcos (Ciudad Real) en los inicios del I milenio a.C.: estructuras y materiales cerámicos

The final Bronze Age and Early Iron Age of the south-western Meseta were insufficiently documented to be properly characterized until the final years of the 20th century. However, recent work at settlements such as Alarcos (Ciudad Real) has obtained valuable information about the habitat structures and a large amount of well contextualized archaeological material (mainly pottery painted after firing). These are carefully-made tablewares whose decoration indicates a selective adoption of fashions and customs of Tartessian inspiration (e.g., Carambolo type and burnished-lattice ceramics) as consequence of commercial exchanges. This new data is helping us achieve a better understanding of the new settlement patterns that started to appear at that time in the middle valley of the Guadiana river and shows the dynamism of the communities located there