Journal article
Mobility and Alterity in Iberian Late Prehistoric Archaeology: Current Research on the Neolithic–Early Bronze Age (6000–1500 BCE)
Annual review of anthropology, Vol.49(1), pp.49-65
10/21/2020
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-anthro-010220-042345
Abstract
Archaeological investigations of late prehistoric Iberia between the Neolithic and Bronze Age (6000–1500 BCE) have long been a battleground between indigenist and exogenous models, and understandings of mobility and alterity have played an important role in these debates. Prior to the development of radiocarbon dating, key cultural transformations, such as megaliths, copper metallurgy, fortified hilltop settlements, and Beakers, were generally associated with nonlocal peoples, migrants, or colonizers. With the incorporation of radiocarbon dating to Iberian archaeological contexts in the 1980s and the determination of the antiquity of many of these cultural changes, the pendulum swung in the other direction, with a marked shift toward viewing autochthonous origins for these watershed transitions. In recent years, developments in strontium isotope analyses, genetics, and raw material characterization studies have provided new evidence for the mobility of peoples and things, and diffusionist models, sometimes without critical theorization, have once again reemerged.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Mobility and Alterity in Iberian Late Prehistoric Archaeology: Current Research on the Neolithic–Early Bronze Age (6000–1500 BCE)
- Creators
- Katina T. Lillios - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Annual review of anthropology, Vol.49(1), pp.49-65
- DOI
- 10.1146/annurev-anthro-010220-042345
- ISSN
- 0084-6570
- eISSN
- 1545-4290
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/21/2020
- Academic Unit
- Anthropology; International Programs
- Record Identifier
- 9984270197202771
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