RT Journal Article
T1 Life and Death of the Macrolithic Tools from the Third-millennium cal. BC Necropolis of La Orden-Seminario in Southwest Spain
A1 Martínez Sevilla, Francisco
A1 Linares Catela, José Antonio
AB Macrolithic tools are linked to daily activities and, fundamentally, to settlements, hence their importance for the study of Late Prehistoric societies. However, these objects are also associated with funerary contexts, but have not often been analysed holistically. This paper studies an assemblage of macrolithic elements from three collective tombs from the third millennium cal. BC at the site of La Orden-Seminario (Huelva, Spain), from a theoretical and methodological perspective based on the biography of the object. Our analysis focuses on typology, raw materials, technology, function and burial context. The results show that the tools can be linked to domestic activities such as the grinding of cereals and the processing of plant materials, as well as for the production and maintenance of the elements used in these activities. The analysed objects display long biographies of use and, in some cases, we have documented intentional breakage for their deposition in the tombs. The patterns of deposition in the funerary contexts reflect social practices related to the ritual and symbolic behaviours surrounding death and the relationship with everyday objects. 
PB Cambridge University Press
SN 0959-7743
SN 1474-0540  (electrónico)
YR 2023
FD 2023-05-25
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10272/22187
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10272/22187
LA eng
NO Martínez-Sevilla, F., & Linares-Catela, J. A. (2023). Life and Death of the Macrolithic Tools from the Third-millennium cal. bc Necropolis of La Orden- Seminario in Southwest Spain. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 1–28. http://doi.org/10.1017/S095977432300015X
NO This study has been carried out within the framework of the R+D+i Project ‘MEGA-LITHOS. Geo-archaeological study methods for the investigation of the Huelva megalithisms’ (UHU-1263153), at the University of Huelva, funded by the Operative Programme ERDF 2014-2020 and the Department of Economy and Knowledge of the Government of Andalusia. The funding of the open access fee has been covered by the University of Huelva, thanks to an agreement with Cambridge University Press. We are grateful to Dr Juan Carlos Vera-Rodríguez for facilitating the study of the materials and Dr Teodosio Donaire Romero for his collaboration in the petrographic analysis. We are grateful for the valuable comments of the anonymous reviewers and the editor, as their suggestions and recommendations have enriched the work.Funding for open access charge: Universidad de Huelva / CBUA
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 30 may 2026