Procedencia de la estela funeraria con fósiles de Castillejo del Bonete (Terrinches, Ciudad Real, España).
- Graciela Delvene 1
- Eleuterio Baeza Chico 1
- Juan Usera 2
- José Luis Fuentes Sánchez 3
- Luis Benítez de Lugo Enrich 4
- 1 Museo Geominero (Instituto Geológico y Minero de España).
- 2 Departament de Botànica i Geologia.Universitat de València.
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Universidad de Granada
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- 4 Dpto. de Prehistoria y Arqueología, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
ISSN: 1888-8615
Year of publication: 2020
Issue: 35
Pages: 45-62
Type: Article
More publications in: De re metallica ( Madrid ): revista de la Sociedad Española para la Defensa del Patrimonio Geológico y Minero
Abstract
Castillejo del Bonete is a sacred place of the Motillas Culture, that consists of several tumuli, buildings and corridorswith astronomical orientations. It was strategically built to monumentalize a cave located at the southern edge ofthe Southern Plateau, on a natural corridor of passage between Andalusia, Levante and the Meseta. The cave wasused as a burial chamber. There are human remains, archaeological pieces and two limestone funerary steles insideGallery 3. This work presents the detailed study of one of them. The funerary stele with fossils from Castillejo delBonete is a unique record up to date. The sample is a biocalcarenite with bryozoans, scallop bivalves and microfossilscharacteristic of a marine environment. It is a block carved on allochthonous fossiliferous limestone. The studiescarried out allow us to affirm that the piece comes from middle Miocene of the province of Albacete. The archaeo-logical pieces deposited here, after their useful life, were put to the service of a ritual created around the ancestorsand a solar cult that lasted from the Chalcolithic to the Bronze Age, at the beginning of the social hierarchy in the South of the Meseta.