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Matching Data: Analyzing the Chronological Use Sequence in the Iron Age Necropolis of the Staggered Turriform of Son Ferrer (Balearic Islands, Spain)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 February 2016

Manuel Calvo Trias ,
Jaume García Rosselló ,
David Javaloyas Molina ,
Daniel Albero Santacreu  and
Mark Van Strydonck
Manuel Calvo Trias
Affiliation:
ArqueoUIB Research Group, University of the Balearic Islands, Edificio Ramon Llull, Ctra. Valldemossa km 7.5 s/n, 07122, Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain
Jaume García Rosselló
Affiliation:
ArqueoUIB Research Group, University of the Balearic Islands, Edificio Ramon Llull, Ctra. Valldemossa km 7.5 s/n, 07122, Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain
David Javaloyas Molina*
Affiliation:
ArqueoUIB Research Group, University of the Balearic Islands, Edificio Ramon Llull, Ctra. Valldemossa km 7.5 s/n, 07122, Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain
Daniel Albero Santacreu
Affiliation:
ArqueoUIB Research Group, University of the Balearic Islands, Edificio Ramon Llull, Ctra. Valldemossa km 7.5 s/n, 07122, Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain
Mark Van Strydonck
Affiliation:
Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage, Jubelpark 1, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium
*
2. Corresponding author: davidjavaloyas@gmail.com.
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Abstract

The Son Ferrer archaeological site presents a series of successive occupations spanning a long period of time. At the beginning of the Iron Age (∼850 BC), a staggered turriform structure was built for a ritual purpose over an artificial hypogeum that had already been used as a collective necropolis during the Early Bronze Age (∼1800–1500 BC). Later, in the post-Talayotic phase (Second Iron Age, 550–123 BC), the hypogeum was again reused as a collective burial place. The present work is focused on the chronological and functional analysis of this last phase, which began ∼500 BC and ended ∼180 BC with the saturation and sealing of the hypogeum. The excavation process revealed that significant removal of archaeological material has occurred as a result of complex funerary space management practices, which generated a secondary archaeological context. Given this situation, and in order to establish the different use phases of the post-Talayotic necropolis, a dual strategy of excavation and research was implemented. First, an extensive series of radiocarbon dates on human remains (18 dates) was obtained, which were later analyzed following Bayesian strategies. Second, a detailed spatial analysis was carried out, georeferencing the location of all the archaeological finds. This strategy allowed the reconstruction of the space management processes and movement patterns that took place in the burial space. Despite some initial difficulties, the combination of these research strategies embedded in a contextual analysis provided both material and chronological references that have contributed to define the various use phases of the hypogeum.

Type
Balearic Islands: New Data for an Old Story
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 56 , Issue 2 , 2014 , pp. 361 - 374
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Copyright © 2014 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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