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Deconstructing Neolithic Monumental Space: the Montenegro Enclosure in Galicia (Northwest Iberia)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 September 2011

Camila Gianotti ,
Patricia Mañana-Borrazás ,
Felipe Criado-Boado  and
Elías López-Romero
Camila Gianotti
Affiliation:
Eastern Regional University Centre (CURE), Laboratory of Landscape Archaeology and Heritage, (LAPPU-FHCE), associated unit of CURE,University of the Republic of Uruguay (UdelaR), Rincón esquina Florencio Sánchez, 27000 Rocha, Uruguay, Email: [email protected]
Patricia Mañana-Borrazás
Affiliation:
Institute of Heritage Sciences (Incipit), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), San Roque 2, 15704 Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Email: [email protected]
Felipe Criado-Boado
Affiliation:
Institute of Heritage Sciences (Incipit), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), San Roque 2, 15704 Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Email: [email protected]
Elías López-Romero
Affiliation:
Institute of Heritage Sciences (Incipit), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), San Roque 2, 15704 Santiago de Compostela, Spain Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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This article presents a comparative analysis of archaeological sites in northwest Iberia focusing on Neolithic spatial concepts and their materialization in different architectures from this period. The recently excavated site of Montenegro in Galicia is analysed to determine how the construction of circular enclosures reproduces the organizational model of space identified in monumental architectures elsewhere. The origin of these constructions, their functionality and their relation with other archaeological phenomena are explored to show how they are all different versions of the same concept. Finally the authors discuss what they consider their key point that the prevalence of circular design may be recognized behind the diverse materialities as an essential instrument of Neolithic societies which began to tame the world.

Type
Research Article
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Cambridge Archaeological Journal , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , October 2011 , pp. 391 - 406
Copyright
Copyright © The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research 2011