Video of the permanent exhibition of the National Archaeological Museum. Protohistoric Area: Celtic peoples.
Video of the permanent exhibition of the National Archaeological Museum. Protohistoric Area: Celtic peoples.
5th Seminar on Medieval Archaeology, Art and History. Irradiation of power from Toledo in the Visigothic period, presenting a multidisciplinary reflection on the most significant archaeological research and excavations carried out in recent years.
I Seminar on the ancient and medieval cult image. Iconotropy is a word of Greek origin that literally means “movement/change of the image”. According to William J. Hamblin (2007), iconotropy is the cultural phenomenon whereby there is an “accidental or deliberate misinterpretation by one culture of the images or myths of another, especially to bring them into accord with the first culture”. Thus, both in the classical culture of antiquity and in medieval culture, we can identify numerous testimonies of how – on a symbolic and material level – cult images were involved in processes of misinterpretation produced by another culture. The international seminar “Iconotropy: symbolic and material alterations of the ancient and medieval cult image” aims to revitalise studies on the ancient and medieval cult image based on the concept of “iconotropy” (movement/change of the image), and to show researchers and students how the subject can still be approached from a multidisciplinary and innovative perspective that allows common denominators to be reached in defining the symbolic and material changes of these images in different chronologies, epochs and mentalities.
The Lower Epoch of Iberian Culture, 40 years later. Symposium commemorating the 50th anniversary of the AEAA.
The Low Period of Iberian Culture, 40 years later. Symposium commemorating the 50th anniversary of the AEAA.
El proyecto Gadir Cartaginesa. Estrategias sociales y respuestas rituales en situaciones de crisis (PGC2018-097481-B-I00). Plan Estatal de Investigación. Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (2019-2021) se focaliza en el análisis y relectura de un tipo muy característico de estructuras localizadas en la antigua ciudad de Gadir (Cádiz), conocidas en la literatura científica como “pozos rituales”. Son estructuras subterráneas que aparecen colmatadas de materiales y restos orgánicos producto de la celebración en ellas de distintos actos rituales.
El objetivo principal es explicar las razones culturales e históricas por las que surgen, se desarrollan y desaparecen estas estructuras, y las acciones que las generan. Para ello es necesario fijar la cronología de los contextos, por una parte, e identificar y aislar los distintos pasos de la «cadena operativa ritual», por otra.
Los resultados obtenidos hasta ahora permiten plantear que se trate de un ritual ancestral gaditano que se potencia con la llegada de las tropas cartaginesas a la ciudad, posiblemente como medio para canalizar la conflictividad social, latente o manifiesta, que la situación debió generar en la ciudad; y que desaparece lentamente cuando esta finaliza.
A round table aimed at informing the public about the latest research carried out recently in three large Andalusian megaliths (Menga, Soto and Montelirio), and the importance of their dissemination. This is a unique opportunity to delve into the fascinating phenomenon of megaliths.
In October 2015, as chance would have it, during a preliminary archaeological impact study, a Neolithic funerary structure was located, which has since been the object of study in different archaeological interventions. It has also become the backbone of a more ambitious project of research, conservation and enhancement, which is being promoted by the City Council of San Martín del Rey Aurelio (Asturias).
This work presents the results of the scientific study of the great megalithic tomb of Montelirio (Castilleja de Guzmán, Seville), excavated between 2007 and 2010. The exhaustive research carried out over almost 10 years, involving 45 specialists from 16 universities and research centres in five different countries (Germany, Spain, the United States of America, New Zealand and the United Kingdom) has included the deployment of some of the most cutting-edge research methods and techniques in modern archaeology. Taken together, the results reveal one of the most fascinating and enigmatic prehistoric monuments on the European continent, in which a mostly female collective of people were buried, accompanied by unparalleled grave goods including objects unseen anywhere else in the world, such as sophisticated robes made from tens of thousands of perforated beads and ornaments of shell, ivory and amber. The innumerable details revealed by the painstaking research undertaken bring us closer in previously unknown detail to the way of life of Copper Age societies (c. 3200-2300 BCE), and in particular to their technology, craftsmanship, patterns of contact and exchange, social organisation and worldview. With this study, Montelirio joins the select group of ‘classic’ megalithic monuments of Andalusian, Iberian and European Recent Prehistory, confirming the cultural and social emergence of the lower Guadalquivir valley in the third millennium B.C.E., the true genesis of the development process of the city of Seville.
The heads studied belong to a votive deposit of the Etruscan – Lazio1 – Campanian type. The votive offering and its meaning.