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The Mega-Site of Valencina de la Concepción (Seville, Spain): Debating Settlement Form, Monumentality and Aggregation in Southern Iberian Copper Age Societies

verfasst von: Leonardo García Sanjuán, Chris Scarre, David W. Wheatley

Erschienen in: Journal of World Prehistory | Ausgabe 3/2017

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Study of the Iberian Copper Age has experienced a remarkable upheaval in the last two decades. The discovery in central and southwestern Iberia of a significant number of ditched enclosures, a site type almost unknown in this region until the mid 1990s, has opened up new lines of research. Particularly interesting is the existence of some exceptionally large sites. Largest of all is Valencina de la Concepción (Seville, Spain), covering an area of 450 ha and featuring several outstanding megalithic monuments, thousands of pits and material assemblages revealing middle and long distance contacts. In this paper we discuss the implications of the Valencina mega-site for the study of settlement variability, monumentality and population aggregation as key phenomena in the rise in social complexity in Copper Age Iberia.

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Titel: The Mega-Site of Valencina de la Concepción (Seville, Spain): Debating Settlement Form, Monumentality and Aggregation in Southern Iberian Copper Age Societies
verfasst von: Leonardo García Sanjuán
Chris Scarre
David W. Wheatley
Publikationsdatum: 29.08.2017
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: Journal of World Prehistory / Ausgabe 3/2017
Print ISSN: 0892-7537
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-7802
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-017-9107-6

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