El tiempo y los ritos de los antepasadosLa Mina y el Alto del Reinoso, novedades sobre el megalitismo en la Cuenca del Duero
- Manuel Rojo-Guerra 1
- Rafael Garrido-Pena 2
- Cristina Tejedor-Rodríguez 1
- Iñigo García-Martínez de Lagrán 3
- K.W. Alt 4
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Universidad de Valladolid
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Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
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Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
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- 4 Danube Private University (Krems, Austria)
ISSN: 2341-2496
Year of publication: 2015
Issue Title: Homenaje a Rodrigo de Balbín Behrmann
Issue: 3
Pages: 133-147
Type: Article
More publications in: ARPI: Arqueología y Prehistoria del Interior Peninsular
Abstract
The Megalithism in the Duero Basin shows a wide range of different monuments, both the more orthodox types (simple dolmens and passage graves) and others lacking the orthostatic structures (simple mounds, “lime-kiln” tombs). In this article two recent discoveries are presented that were found and excavated in the Burgos and Soria provinces. Different closure rituals were documented in them involving the dismantling of previous collective graves and the subsequent transformation of those burial spaces, through complex ceremonies and even architectonic reforms, into veneration places to the memory of the ancestors deposited there, within the ritual landscape organized around them.