Comments on the Neolithic collective burial at Cerro Virtud (Cuevas de Almanzora, Almería)
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https://doi.org/10.3989/tp.1999.v56.i1.294Keywords:
Middle Neolithic, Almería, Collective burial, Radiocarbon dates, Palaeopathology, Physical AnthropologyAbstract
Different results from the collective burial of Cerro Virtud confirm the importance of this settlement for our understanding of the Neolithic in southeastern Iberian Peninsula. The site has both open air settlement and collective burial. It also has the first evidence of Neolithic metalworking in Western Europe. The article focuses on the collective burial. Anthropological analysis shows eleven individuals, some of them in primary positions and others displaced. A radiocarbon sequence of the burial is also pesented. The burial chronology is in the first half of V millennium cal EC.
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1999-06-30
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Montero Ruiz, I., Rihuete Herrada, C., & Ruiz Taboada, A. (1999). Comments on the Neolithic collective burial at Cerro Virtud (Cuevas de Almanzora, Almería). Trabajos De Prehistoria, 56(1), 119–130. https://doi.org/10.3989/tp.1999.v56.i1.294
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