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The Chronology of the Neolithic Necropolis Bòbila Maduell-Can Gambús in the Northeast Iberian Peninsula: Dating the Pit Burials Cultural Horizon and Long-Range Raw Material Exchange Networks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 December 2017

Juan F Gibaja ,
Berta Morell ,
Juan Antonio Barceló Álvarez ,
Stéphanie Duboscq ,
Alba Masclans ,
Gerard Remolins ,
Jordi Roig ,
Araceli Martín ,
Paloma González  and
Javier Plasencia
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Juan F Gibaja
Affiliation:
Archaeology and Anthropology Department, Milà i Fontanals Institution (IMF-CSIC), Spanish National Research Council, Egipcíaques Street 15, 08001 Barcelona, Spain
Berta Morell*
Affiliation:
Department of Prehistory, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Building B, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Spain
Juan Antonio Barceló Álvarez
Affiliation:
Department of Prehistory, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Building B, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Spain
Stéphanie Duboscq
Affiliation:
Department of Prehistory, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Building B, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Spain
Alba Masclans
Affiliation:
Department of History and Art History, University of Girona, Campus Barri Vell, Ferrater Mora Square 1, 17071 Girona, Spain
Gerard Remolins
Affiliation:
REGIRAROCS, SL, Research, Preservation and Dissemination of Natural and Cultural Heritage of the Pyrenees Company, Carlemany Street 115, AD700 Escaldes-Engordany, Andorra, Spain
Jordi Roig
Affiliation:
Arrago S.L., Sant Cugat Street 76, Baixos, 08021 Sabadell, Spain
Araceli Martín
Affiliation:
Government of Catalunya, Department of Culture, Portaferrisa Street 1, 08002 Barcelona, Spain
Paloma González
Affiliation:
Department of History and Art History, University of Girona, Campus Barri Vell, Ferrater Mora Square 1, 17071 Girona, Spain
Javier Plasencia
Affiliation:
Department of History and Art History, University of Girona, Campus Barri Vell, Ferrater Mora Square 1, 17071 Girona, Spain
Joan Manel Coll
Affiliation:
Arrago S.L., Sant Cugat Street 76, Baixos, 08021 Sabadell, Spain
M Eulàlia Subirà
Affiliation:
Department of Animal Biology, Plant Biology and Ecology, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Building C, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Spain
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*Corresponding author. Email: berta.morell@uab.cat.
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Abstract

Bòbila Madurell-Can Gambús is the most emblematic Neolithic cemetery in the northeastern Iberian peninsula, with a total of 179 documented pit burials. Artifacts made of exogenous raw materials, such as honey flint (southeastern France), jadeite, amphibolite, eclogite and nephrite (Alps and the Pyrenees), variscite (coast of northeastern Iberia), and even obsidian (Sardinia), have been found in the burials. The presence of these raw materials is not exclusive to this necropolis, but they have also been documented in many of the graves of this region during this period. The literature has singled out this funerary practice as the Pit Burials cultural horizon. However, until now the chronology of this funerary practice has not been fully defined, so it was difficult to explain the development of the chronology and the networks through which the materials reached northeast Iberia. New, unpublished radiocarbon (14C) dates of Bòbila Madurell-Can Gambús are presented, as well as the results of different statistical analyses and Bayesian modeling that specify its chronology. Through the contribution of new data on the chronology of Bòbila Madurell-Can Gambús new clues regarding the temporal dynamics of pit burials and the raw materials exchange networks associated with them are presented.

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Bayesian modeling of radiocarbon datingnecropolisPit Burials cultural horizonradiocarbon datingraw materials exchange networksstatistical analyses
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Radiocarbon , Volume 59 , Special Issue 6: 8th International Symposium, Edinburgh, 27 June – 1 July, 2016 Part 2 of 2 , December 2017 , pp. 1713 - 1736
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Selected Papers from the 8th Radiocarbon & Archaeology Symposium, Edinburgh, UK, 27 June–1 July 2016

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