Rituales funerarios neolíticos, calcolíticos y de la Edad del Bronce en la provincia de Ciudad Real: Cerro Ortega (Villanueva de la Fuente) y Castillejo del Bonete (Terrinches)
Аннотация:This work presents unpublished data and materials on two fundamental archaeological funerary sites to understand the processes of cultural change between the middle of the IVth and the middle of the Ist millennium BC to the South of the Iberian Plateau: the shelter of Cerro Ortega and the tumuli of Castillejo del Bonete. The presence in both sites of pieces such as idols, pottery of the Dornajos type, personal adornments of variscite, ivory, shell or bone, as well as their orientation to astronomical events, provides information about the symbolic aspects of the first producing communities of La Mancha and Campo de Montiel. The data provided also gives information about the processes that will result in the organization of the first complex societies of the region, which in no way was 'a vacuum' in these times. The study allows us to observe how funerary patterns have evolved during the recent Prehistory in the upper basin of the Guadiana River, until culminating in the formation of the Culture of the Motillas, also known as Bronze Age of La Mancha.
