microrobert
05-06-2015, 04:37 AM
New research challenges the view of an egalitarian Neolithic society
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Data obtained by researcher Teresa Fernández-Crespo from seven megalithic graves (dolmens) in La Rioja and Araba-Álava appear to suggest that certain individuals in the Neolithic period were excluded from burial within these monuments on the basis of age and sex.
The research uses evidence obtained from dolmens located in northern Spain, and is published in the Journal of Archaeological Science.
The use of communal burial monuments may be masking a funerary system that marginalised a certain proportion of the population, and is in contradiction to the generally accepted view of the egalitarian Neolithic society.
“In the article we propose that the people buried were intentionally selected. We do so by basing this on the fact that the demographic composition of the megaliths displays significant anomalies with respect to a normal population of an ancient type.
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/05/2015/new-research-challenges-the-view-of-an-egalitarian-neolithic-society
http://40.media.tumblr.com/06138c4d15aee46d87b602425f437406/tumblr_inline_nnw0zdlvCm1qgjbhq_500.jpg
Data obtained by researcher Teresa Fernández-Crespo from seven megalithic graves (dolmens) in La Rioja and Araba-Álava appear to suggest that certain individuals in the Neolithic period were excluded from burial within these monuments on the basis of age and sex.
The research uses evidence obtained from dolmens located in northern Spain, and is published in the Journal of Archaeological Science.
The use of communal burial monuments may be masking a funerary system that marginalised a certain proportion of the population, and is in contradiction to the generally accepted view of the egalitarian Neolithic society.
“In the article we propose that the people buried were intentionally selected. We do so by basing this on the fact that the demographic composition of the megaliths displays significant anomalies with respect to a normal population of an ancient type.
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/05/2015/new-research-challenges-the-view-of-an-egalitarian-neolithic-society