From the earliest farmers to the first urban centres: a socio-economic analysis of underground storage practices in north-eastern Iberia

• Autores: Georgina Prats Ferrando, Ferran Antolín Tutusaus, Natalia Alonso i Martínez
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 94, Nº 375, 2020, págs. 653-668
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The evolution of storage features in prehistory has been linked to larger socio-economic and demographic changes. The investigation of such an evolution in the archaeological record, however, is restricted in scope, both geographically and chronologically. This article offers a comparative approach to understanding the development of Neolithic to Late Iron Age (c. 5600–50 BC) farming communities in north-eastern Iberia, based on diachronic changes in the volume and shape of underground storage silos. Results indicate that variations in silo capacity and morphology correlate with archaeological evidence for long-term socio-economic changes within these prehistoric and protohistoric farming communities.