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Juan Antonio López Padilla
Radiocarbono y estadística Bayesiana: aportaciones a la cronología de la Edad del Bronce en el extremo oriental del sudeste de la península Ibérica
La investigación arqueológica desarrollada en las últimas décadas ha permitido evaluar que en los valles de los ríos Segura y Vinalopó se dirimió el contacto entre dos sociedades de la Edad del Bronce de la península Ibérica: el grupo Argárico y el grupo del Prebético Meridional Valenciano. Las excavaciones realizadas en tres yacimientos de este ámbito - Terlinques, Cabezo Pardo y Cabezo Redondo- y las dotaciones de radiocarbono obtenidas permiten por primera vez evaluar la diacronía del proceso histórico que envolvió el desarrollo de ambos grupos arqueológicos a lo largo del II milenio cal BC, así como determinar diversos momentos socialmente significativos en su devenir histórico. Para el…
Ocher and cinnabar in the argaric funerary record
The known cases of Bronze Age Argaric stained skeletons found in the Southeast of the Iberian Peninsula, have been analysed. The various hypotheses proposed relating to the origin of these colorations have been evaluated in light of new data provided by SEM, XRD and RAMAN spectroscopic analysis carried out on five Argaric graves of Murcia and Alicante. The results have indicated the presence of ochre and cinnabar on some of the skeletons. Without discarding the possibility that both substances were used in dyeing fabrics, it is proposed that their main use was for face and body make-up, being higher the number of recorded cases on female skeletons compared to male.
The maternal genetic make-up of the Iberian Peninsula between the Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age
Agriculture first reached the Iberian Peninsula around 5700 BCE. However, little is known about the genetic structure and changes of prehistoric populations in different geographic areas of Iberia. In our study, we focus on the maternal genetic makeup of the Neolithic (~ 5500–3000 BCE), Chalcolithic (~ 3000–2200 BCE) and Early Bronze Age (~ 2200–1500 BCE). We report ancient mitochondrial DNA results of 213 individuals (151 HVS-I sequences) from the northeast, central, southeast and southwest regions and thus on the largest archaeogenetic dataset from the Peninsula to date. Similar to other parts of Europe, we observe a discontinuity between hunter-gatherers and the first farmers of the Neol…