Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: In this paper we address the biography of a set of copper nails recovered in 1998 from a Late Iron Age structure located at the archaeological site of Puig de Sa Morisca (Mallorca, Spain). The archaeometric and typological analyses conducted on these nails allowed us to relate them to nautical technology, as well as to approach the origin of the raw materials and the production processes involved in their manufacture. The biographical information obtained from these studies has been crucial to address the extensive mobility of these copper nails through the Western Mediterranean during the Iron Age, as well as to approach their fluid nature and association with different communities of practice, assemblages and appropriation phenomena.
Source: Documenta Praehistorica
DOI: 10.4312/dp.51.5
Authors: Laura Perelló Mateo, Bartomeu Llull Estarellas, Daniel Albero Santacreu, Jaume García Rosselló, Manuel Calvo Trias
Institution: Universitat de les Illes Balears
Language: English
Subfield: Archeology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4400281925