El proceso de neolitización, perspectivas teóricas para el estudio del Neolítico

Abstract

In this papper, the most important statements developed in the discipline history in order to attend the study of the Neolithic period and to define the process of neolitization are revised. The beginning point are the theorical foundations which haré been their basis, and through them it is sought to evidence the reasons because of what some features and perspectives of the process and no others have been enfatized. In general, the Neolithic has been thought about as an archaeological stage defined throught an amount of material features. Howewer, since some years ago, some researchers are begginning to use long term historical perspectives and theorical positions far away from the initial evolucionism. All that transforms the traditional wiew of the Neolithic and its cultural, material and chronological definition. From this new point of view, the Neolithic, and therefore the traditional technological división of the Prehistory lose their sense.