Contextos arqueológicos de la actividad metalúrgica en el suroeste de la Península Ibérica (III Milenio A.N.E.): la aplicación de análisis zooarqueológicos multivariantes, espaciales y cuantitativos para la explicación de las relaciones sociales

Abstract

This Doctoral Thesis includes a systematic study about three zooarchaeological settlements from the Southwest of Iberian Península in the Third millennium BC: Cabezo Juré (Alosno, Huelva), La Junta de los Ríos (Puebla de Guzmán, Huelva) and the smelting quarter of Va/encina de la Concepción (Valencina de la Concepción, Seville). The zooarchaeological study ( cleaning, identification, osteology 1 osteometry; quantification; taphonomic processes; skeletal representation; spatial analysis) confirmed the hierarchical variability in the Guadalquivir Depression during the abovementioned period: Cabezo Juré was a smelting settlement with a balance between specimens from livestock herds and specimens hunted. La Junta de los Ríos was a defensive settlement where predominated wild specimens and complete domesticated animals were probably transferred. Va/encina de la Concepción was a settlement where there were spatial and technical divisions of labour, farming practices and an overwhelming majority of bones from domesticated specimens. A diachronic and dissymmetric research was used to study these settlements.