Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: The Requena-Utiel plateau, in the interior of the Province of Valencia, was within the territory of the city of Kelin during the Iberian Iron Age. One significant aspect of this territory is a high concentration of caves with Iberian materials. Cultural deposits in five of these caves are clearly the result of ritual practices inside. These ritual caves were spaces closely linked to the process of territorialization which occurred in the area between the 5th and 3rd centuries BC. In this article we reexamine those features, materials and associated chronologies, always integrating them with the nearby landscape and surroundings.
Source: Complutum
DOI: 10.5209/cmpl.62398
Authors: Sonia Machause López, David Quixal Santos
Institution: Universitat de València
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Archeology (arts and humanities)
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2903950120