Objetos líticos en contextos rituales de la segunda Edad del Hierro en Menorca (500-123 a. C.): el caso del recinto de taula de Sa Cudia Cremada
This paper presents the lithic industry located in a taula enclosure at the Talayotic settlement of Sa Cudia Cremada (Mahon, Menorca). Tools corresponding to some of the typologies which are usually found in coetaneous domestic structures have been registered in this second-iron-age ritual space, in...
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| Format: | Article |
| Publication date: | 2024 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | Universidad de Salamanca (USAL) |
| Repository: | GREDOS. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Salamanca |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:gredos.usal.es:10366/165747 |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10366/165747 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Balearic Islands Talayotic Culture Iron Age Lithic Tools Querns Pebbles Ritual Spaces cultura talayótica Edad del Hierro utensilios líticos molinos de vaivén guijarros espacios rituales Islas Baleares |
| Summary: | This paper presents the lithic industry located in a taula enclosure at the Talayotic settlement of Sa Cudia Cremada (Mahon, Menorca). Tools corresponding to some of the typologies which are usually found in coetaneous domestic structures have been registered in this second-iron-age ritual space, including grinding stones and hammer-stones. Proposals on the meaning of the location of these objects inside a sacred building are presented by means of morpho-typological and spatial distribution analyses, and also establishing a comparison with previously available data on lithic tools from dwellings. The results support the hypothesis in favor of a similarity between sacred and domestic spaces. The abundance of lithic tools in a ritual building seems to indicate the symbolic importance of these elements, something which has already been suggested in other studies. Moreover, the location of a large assemblage of small pebbles just before the main element inside the enclosure could indicate the existence of a ritual which wound not have been registered before inside a taula enclosure. |
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