El mundo funerario del Bronce Final en la fachada atlántica de la Península Ibérica. I Análisis de la documentación

Abstract

One of the most important characteristics of all the Atlantic part of the Iberian Peninsula during the final phase of the Later Bronze Age is the absence of burials. In fact, this characteristic is shared by all the Atlantic areas in Westem Europe. This phenomenon gets progressively older as one moves northward. Attempts have been made to fill this void with various discoveries. In this paper we deal with those graves considered as belonging to the Later Bronze Age and it has been demonstrated that they have been wrongly attributed to that date and that they are not true burials. As a result, the absence of burials must be explained by using hypothesis different from the search for cemeteries as traditionally understood.