VI—Some Rock-cut Tombs and Habitation Caves in Mallorca

W.J. Hemp

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VI—Some Rock-cut Tombs and Habitation Caves in Mallorca

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W.J. Hemp

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It has been claimed that in its general form the type of burial cave which is the principal subject of this paper is in some way linked with the longbarrows of Britain; that is to say they must have had a common origin, and both must have been built by people dominated by some very powerful tradition—the cult of the dead. So far as western Europe is concerned, it is here assumed that the original home of this cult, or at any rate of many of its attributes, is to be sought for in or around the eastern Mediterranean, and that a great deal, if not all, of its influence reached Britain by way of Spain, or by the more direct route on which lie the Aries group of caves and those of the Marne. Therefore, in view of the central position of the Balearic Islands in the western basin of the Mediterranean, there is at least a possibility that the monuments of megalithic type to be found in them may bear a definite, even if remote, relation to those of Britain.

Type: Research Article
Information: Archaeologia , Volume 76 , 1927 , pp. 121 - 160

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261340900013254 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1927

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^{page 122 note 1} Permission to carry out the work was willingly accorded by the owner of the land, Don Bartolome Aloy of Pollensa, and all difficulties were removed by the kind help of Colonel Rafael de Ysasi y Ransome of Palma.

^{page 124 note 1} See p. 141.

^{page 128 note 1} See p. 158. Constans, L. A., Arles antique, p. 8Google Scholar, pl. 1, fig. 5 (a very inaccurate record).

^{page 128 note 2} Cf. also the marks on the dolmen de Mané-Lud at Locmariaquer.

^{page 129 note 1} de Fondouce, P. Cazalis, Allées couvertes de la Provence (Second Mémoire), 1878, p. 13Google Scholar: ‘Dans de ces trous a été trouvée une quantité assez considérable de rondelles de pierre ollaire, suffisante pour avoir pu constituer à elle seule un bracelet ou même un collier.’ M. de Fondouce speaks of five holes only, but there are actually six.

^{page 130 note 1} Âges préhist., p. 178.

^{page 132 note 1} See Siret (Henri and Louis), Les premiers Âges du Métal dans le sud-est de l'Espagne, passim, and a group reproduced in Questions de Chronologie et d'Ethnographie Ibériennes, 1913, p. 337, fig. 148, by Louis Siret.

^{page 132 note 2} For examples see Dr.Pericot, Luis y Garcia, , La Civilización Megalitica Catalana y la Cultura Pirenaica, Barcelona, 1925Google Scholar, pl. xii.

^{page 133 note 1} Hispania, p. 164Google Scholar PubMed, and Anuari, vi, p. 557.Google Scholar

^{page 141 note 1} It is not indicated in plan or section.

^{page 142 note 1} Also described by Señor Furio, with plan and sections, op. cit., p. 553 (fig. 252).

^{page 144 note 1} Op. cit., p. 552, figs. 250, 251.Google Scholar PubMed

^{page 144 note 2} Les Âges préhistoriques, p. 142.Google Scholar

^{page 149 note 1} Roca, J. Colominas, Butlleti de l'Assoctació Catalana d'Antropologia, Etnologia i Prehistòria, Barcelona, 1923Google Scholar, i, 93, fig. 36.

^{page 150 note 1} Révue Archéologique, xviii, 1923, 222–6Google Scholar; Boletin de la Real Academia de la Historia, lxxxiii, 1923, 89–91Google Scholar; Actas y Memorias de la Sociedad Española de Antropologia Etnologia y Prehistoria, ii, 1923, 37–40; Antiquity, i, 106.

^{page 150 note 2} Butlleti de l'Associació Catalana, &c., i, 88.

^{page 150 note 3} Professor Bosch Gimpera writes to me that ‘The shard of beaker pottery from Mallorca is possibly a Sardinian importation, as it is of the type of the bowls with feet of Anghelu Ruju. It is also curious that “vases polypodes ” are also found in South France’.

^{page 107 note 1} Mém. de l'Acad. de Montpellier (Sect, des Sciences), viii, pl. xi.

^{page 153 note 1} e.g. by M. Cartailhac, Capt. Déchelette, and Prof. T. E. Peet.

^{page 153 note 2} Arles antique, p. 8, pl. i. Compare with this and the cover-stone of the Grotte de la Source the markings on the cover-stone of an allée couverte at Barranc, Espolla, in Catalonia, illustrated by Pericot, Civil. Megal. Catalana, pl. vi.

^{page 155 note 1} Sciences, tome viii, 1873.

^{page 158 note 1} Arles antique, p. 12.

^{page 158 note 2} Pericot, , Civil. Megal. Catalana, p. 143, figs. 33 and 34.Google Scholar

^{page 158 note 3} Arles antique, p. 17.

^{page 159 note 1} Déchelette, , Manuel, i, 455.Google Scholar

^{page 159 note 2} Mr. T. D. Kendrick in The Axe Age (pp. 56–63) has emphasized the significance of these Marne monuments in relation to certain British megalithic graves.

^{page 160 note 1} Butlleti de l'Associació Catalana, i, 88.Google Scholar

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