Las relaciones centro/periferia en el Valle del Guadalquivir del III milenio ANELa circulación de hojas de caliza oolítica silicificada
- Nocete Calvo, Francisco
- Sáez Ramos, Reinaldo
- Cabrero García, Rosario
- Cruz-Auñón Briones, Rosario
- Nieto Caldera, José María
ISSN: 0213-2818
Year of publication: 2005
Issue: 14
Pages: 33-62
Type: Article
More publications in: Tabona: Revista de Prehistoria y de Arqueología
Abstract
This study offers an alternative explanation, in terms of core/periphery relationships, by means of a petrologic, morphometric, spatial and contextual analysis of the silicified oolitic limestone blades found in archaeological sites dated back to the third millennium ANE in southern Iberia. This suggests the existence of a supra-regional circulation of highly standardized, finished products, which spread over a distance of more than 500 km, and an area of over 222.000 km2 . In this sense, the blades have become the first archaeological indicator of the paths, types and contents of the relationships developed within and around the inter-settlement hierarchical framework of the Guadalquivir Valley from 3000 to 2500 BC, accounting for the emergence and collapse of a political system.