Instrumentos líticos para a deformação plástica de metais do povoado calcolítico de Outeiro Redondo (Sesimbra)

Excavations undertaken at the fortified Chalcolithic settlement of Outeiro Redondo between 2005 and 2016 produced an assemblage of eight stone implements likely used in the plastic deformation of metals. All implements come from clearly defined contexts of the Middle / Late Chalcolithic, within a sector of the site that has also produced copious other evidence for metallurgical activities. Drawing on archaeological and ethnografic comparisons, we discuss the choice of raw material and the morphology of these implements in terms of their manufacture, as well as their role in the operational sequence of Chalcolithic metalwork prodution. We also consider their potencial to inform inferences concerning the social division of labour in Chalcolithic society.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Instrumentos líticos procedentes de un taller metalúrgico del Bronce Tardío en el Cabezo Redondo, Villena (Alicante)

El yacimiento del Cabezo Redondo es uno de los sitios de referencia del Bronce Tardío de la región de Alicante. Debe su fama a la muy buena conservación de los restos, que permite reconstruir uno de los principales núcleos poblacionales del grupo Villena-Purullena, tanto como al descubrimiento de dos depósitos de objetos de oro, uno en el mismo cabezo, el otro a pocos kilómetros de distancia. El propósito de este trabajo es llamar la atención sobre algunas herramientas líticas procedentes de un área del yacimiento identificada como taller. Junto con otras evidencias, estas herramientas atestiguan la producción metalúrgica en el yacimiento. Basado en un análisis de su morfología general y de la configuración de sus caras activas, tratamos de situar estas herramientas dentro de la cadena operativa de la producción de los objetos metálicos.The Cabezo Redondo is one of the reference sites of the Late Bronze Age in the Alicante region. It owes its fame to its very good preservation, which has allowed the reconstruction of one of the main nucleated settlements of the Villena-Purullena group, and to the discovery of two hoards of gold objects, one from the site itself, the other found a few kilometres away. The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to some stone tools from an area within the site that has been identified as a workshop. Together with other pieces of evidence, these tools bear witness to the production of metal objects at the site. Based on an analysis of their general morphology and of the configuration of their active surfaces, we undertake to place these tools within the operational sequence of metalwork production.Esta investigación se encuadra en el proyecto “Between a Rock and a Hard Place: choice, function and context of lithic tools in early metalworking on Europe’s Atlantic façade”, Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship financiado en el 7º Programa Marco de la Unión Europea (PN623392 - HardRock)

Metalworkers and their Tools: Symbolism, Function, and Technology in the Bronze and Iron Ages

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