Gaining an understanding of the funerary world is always difficult, as we are trying to understand ideas and beliefs developed by a long-gone society, and we only have archaeological materials and written sources.
Gaining an understanding of the funerary world is always difficult, as we are trying to understand ideas and beliefs developed by a long-gone society, and we only have archaeological materials and written sources.
The alloy of copper with tin appeared for the first time in the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula in the Argaric period. In this study we have compiled all the published compositional analyses in order to assess the frequency and use of this alloy. The data show that some objects such as halberds were never made of bronze and that it is in personal adornments (bracelets, rings and earrings) that this alloy is most frequently detected. The chromatic effect of the metals and alloys (copper, bronze, silver) and their combination in grave goods or the greater or lesser social value given to the different metals seem to explain their choice and use better than the criteria of technological or functional improvement in this phase of the Bronze Age. It is suggested that the first bronzes may have been objects imported from other regions of the Iberian Peninsula or Europe.
Objects of ornamentation can be considered frequent elements among archaeological materials. They seem to be very simple pieces, but we do not know the extent of their significance. Through the study of the collections from the Vera Basin, as well as from other sites in the Southeast, we will approach the valuation of these objects.
The origin of the Roman tribes is a question that is still hotly debated today. In pre-Struscan monarchic times the Roman population was apparently divided into the three tribes of Tities, Ramnes and Luceres; this division, based on archaic gentile structures, was made on the basis of a rational distribution of the population with the aim of achieving a better administration of the state apparatus that would allow for greater efficiency in military recruitment.
Colonia Barcino has been and still is one of the most studied and best known Roman cities in the Peninsula thanks to the constant work of a wide range of researchers who have dealt with all aspects of it.
The heads studied belong to a votive deposit of the Etruscan – Lazio1 – Campanian type. The votive offering and its meaning.
Recensión.El vientre controlado es la publicación de la tesis doctoral de Patricia de los Ángeles González Gutiérrez leída en julio de 2015 en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid y dirigida por
el profesor Carlos González Wagner. El trabajo ha sido revisado y modificado para su
publicación como libro en una editorial que se dedica a temas feministas pero que tiene un
claro perfil de investigación de la Antigüedad.
The object of our study will focus only on the beginning and the development of travel writing. This way of describing the events, places and customs experienced during a journey is the starting point of ancient history, geography, ethnology and cartography.
This article is a comparative study of the theme of the hero’s struggle against the sea monster. On the one hand there is the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh and the aquatic family of the sacred city of Eridu, and, on the other, the translation and actualisation of the theme through the trials or Labours of the Greek hero Heracles. Both worlds conceive the quest for Immortality through a journey to the Beyond. The heroic journey will have its destination in the sacred island of Dilmun on the Babylonian side and in the Garden of the Hesperides on the Greek side. Despite the similarities, there are also notable differences due to the religious conceptions of the two peoples.
This paper deals with the history of research on the Greek presence in Iberia during the 20th century. It analyses the historical idealism and what we could call the philological archaeology of the works of Schulten, Obermaier, Carpenter and Bosch Gimpera in the first half of the century, the great figure of García y Bellido, the positivist archaeology of the 1960s and 1970s, led by Gloria Trías, the new excavations carried out in the 1980s, and the new approaches of the 1990s, in which an attempt is made to reconstruct the history of this process from the point of view of the consequences that this commercial action had on the economic, social and political development of the communities involved in the exchange with the Greek world.