Los enterramientos de la Edad del Bronce del yacimiento de la Orden-Seminario (Huelva). Rituales funerarios y diferenciación sexual en la transición del Tercer al Segundo Milenios cal a.c. en Andalucía Occidental

Resumen

The Bronze Age cemetery of La Orden-Seminario (Huelva, southwest of Spain) shows the transition between the burial rites of Late Chalcolithic and local Bronze Age (first stage of the so-called "Southwestern Bronze"). C14 available datings have allowed us to differentiate a late Beaker first phase related to the end of megalithism (2200-1950 cal BC) and a second phase of Early Bronze strict sense (2100 y 1750 cal BC). This second phase has ritual aspects consisting in the inhumation of dead bodies in left lateral decubitus for males and right for females, sexual differentiation of the metallic grave goods, (weapons for men and awls for women), the recurrence of pecten shells, and the use of pits and not stone cists, as is generalized for most of the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula.