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Earliest Evidence of Neolithic Collective Burials from Eastern Iberia: Radiocarbon Dating at the Archaeological Site of Les Llometes (Alicante, Spain)
| Content Provider | Scilit |
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| Author | Salazar-García, Domingo C. García-Puchol, Oreto de Miguel-Ibáñez, María Paz Talamo, Sahra |
| Copyright Year | 2016 |
| Description | In the Valencia region of Spain, the dominant use of natural caves for collective burials during the Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods has been documented. Collective burials are central to the hypothesis about social relationships in Copper Age societies from Iberia, and key to interpreting kinship-based societies. Les Llometes (Alcoi, Alicante) is one of the biggest collective burial sites existing in eastern Iberia. This article presents the $direct^{14}$C dates on 25 skeletal remains at the site. The results indicate that the site was used as a burial place from the end of the 5th millennium cal BC until the end of the 4th millennium cal BC, and is a first milestone for future studies that will shed light on the transition towards social structure through the use of a cemetery space. Moreover, this research is one of the few investigations of Late Neolithic collective burials in Iberia that comprises an extensive accelerator mass spectrometry $(AMS)^{14}$C data set of almost all the individuals reported at a single site. This case also serves to highlight the utility of revisiting materials from historic excavations $by^{14}$C dating all the skeletal remains that define the minimum number of individuals, and therefore ensuring a more complete picture of the prehistoric human record. |
| Related Links | http://roderic.uv.es/bitstream/10550/54296/1/113176.pdf https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/71F64BDC07903E307EF2807F2340A0F5/S0033822216000345a.pdf/div-class-title-earliest-evidence-of-neolithic-collective-burials-from-eastern-iberia-radiocarbon-dating-at-the-archaeological-site-of-les-llometes-alicante-spain-div.pdf |
| Ending Page | 692 |
| Page Count | 14 |
| Starting Page | 679 |
| ISSN | 00338222 |
| e-ISSN | 19455755 |
| DOI | 10.1017/rdc.2016.34 |
| Journal | Radiocarbon |
| Issue Number | 3 |
| Volume Number | 58 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
| Publisher Date | 2016-09-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Radiocarbon Late Neolithic Human Burials Ams 14c |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Earth and Planetary Sciences Archeology (arts and humanities) |
