Solid/hollow, soldered/cast, morphology/technology. The Castro technological domain system through the torcs with double moulding ends

Abstract

We oppose the direct observation of the artefacts and the study of the fabrication, distribution and consumption processes against the traditional typological view of the castro torcs. Technological variability defines best this particular archaeological material which forms part of the Iron Age goldwork in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula. We forget its quality of adornment and conceptualize the object as a collective investment within a diachronic context beginning in the Final Bronze Age and extending into the Period of romanization.