Un enfoque biográfico para la Etnogeología de la Prehistoria Final en Portugal

Katina T. Lillios

doi:10.3989/tp.2000.v57.i1.259

A Biographical Approach to the Ethnogeology of Late Prehistoric Portugal

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Katina T. Lillios Department of Anthropology and Sociology. Ripon College. United States of America

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https://doi.org/10.3989/tp.2000.v57.i1.259

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Geoarchaeology, Polished stone tools, Neolithic, Chalcolithic, Portugal, Artifact biographies

Abstract

In this paper, I explore the relationship between an artifact's biography and the raw material from which it was made. Specifically, I discuss the biographies of groundstone tools from five Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic (3500-2000 BC) sites in lowland Portugal. An analysis of the formal and material characteristics of tools (totalling over 1300) from these sites indicates that the raw material from which a tool was made not only constrained the form and function of that tool, but also determined, to a large extent, whether that tool would be recycled and the context (settlement V5. burial) in which that tool would be ultimately deposited. I suggest that both the material properties and the socio-symbolic associations of different raw materials might explain the biographies of the artifacts from which they were made.

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2000-06-30

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Lillios, K. T. (2000). A Biographical Approach to the Ethnogeology of Late Prehistoric Portugal. Trabajos De Prehistoria, 57(1), 19–28. https://doi.org/10.3989/tp.2000.v57.i1.259

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Vol. 57 No. 1 (2000)

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