Atlantic Halberds as bell beaker weapons in Iberia: tomb 1 of humanejos (Parla, Madrid, Spain)
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UAM. Departamento de Prehistoria y ArqueologíaPublisher
WileyDate
2022-06-09Citation
10.1111/ojoa.12250
Oxford Journal of Archaeology 41.3 (2022): 252-277
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0262-5253 (print); 1468-0092 (online)DOI
10.1111/ojoa.12250Funded by
This article was supported by the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Spain) Research Project PID2019-105690GB-I00. Vida y muerte en Humanejos (Parla, Madrid), Arqueometría de un asentamiento y necrópolis excepcional del III y II milenios cal AC en el interior peninsular. We would also like to thank the Museo Arqueológico Regional de Madrid and the Dirección General de Patrimonio Cultural de la Comunidad de Madrid for all their help and support in this research. Open access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEALProject
Gobierno de España. PID2019-105690GB-I00Editor's Version
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Abstract
The recent discovery of an Atlantic halberd among other abundant and rich grave goods in the Bell Beaker double tomb 1 of Humanejos (Parla, Madrid) demonstrates that this type of weapon was part of the Beaker panoply. It is the first example of an Atlantic halberd in a Beaker burial context in Iberia and only the second one in Europe. The remaining halberds come from old and isolated finds in Early Bronze Age deposits that were usually interpreted as post-Beaker votive deposits. In this paper the Humanejos halberd and its archaeological context (human remains, burial structure, radiocarbon dates) are carefully examined. The study includes the technical analysis of the halberd (metal composition, lead isotopes, use-wear traces), together with the other metallic weapons and tools recovered with it (Palmela points, tanged dagger, awl) as well as the rest of the offerings (Beaker pottery, ivory and bone adornments). All these data suggest that this exceptionally rich grave could have held a woman and a man of the social elite, with the power to concentrate important amounts of precious raw materials (copper, gold, ivory, cinnabar) in few hands, especially when compared to other contemporary graves in the same site and region
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Google Scholar:Garrido Pena, Rafael
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Flores Fernández, Raúl
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Herrero Corral, Ana M.
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Muñoz Moro, Pedro
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Gutiérrez Sáez, Carmen
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Paulos Bravo, Rodrigo
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