Tracing Mobility Patterns of Buried Species of the Late Iron Age Funerary Staggered Turriform of Son Ferrer (Calvià, Spain)-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Tracing Mobility Patterns of Buried Species of the Late Iron Age Funerary Staggered Turriform of Son Ferrer (Calvià, Spain)

Published:2023-01-01 Issue:1 Volume:9 Page:
ISSN:2300-6560
Container-title:Open Archaeology
language:en
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Author:

Valenzuela-Suau Lua¹,Valenzuela-Lamas Sílvia²,García-Rosselló Jaume³,Salvador Paloma³,Nadal Jordi⁴,Díaz-Zorita Bonilla Marta⁵,Pena Leopoldo D.⁶,Delgado Antonio⁷,Calvo Manuel³

Affiliation:

1. Departament de Ciències Històriques i Teoria de les Arts, ArchaeoUIB Research Group, Universitat de les Illes Balears , Crtra de Valldemossa, km 7,5, 07122 Palma , Spain

2. Archaeology of Social Dynamics (ASD), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Institució Milà i Fontanals (CSIC-IMF), Carrer de les Egipcíaques, 15 , 08001 , Barcelona , Spain

3. Departament de Ciències Històriques i Teoria de les Arts, ArchaeoUIB Research Group, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Crtra de Valldemossa, km 7,5 , 07122 Palma , Spain

4. Departament d’Història i Arqueologia, Facultat de Geografia i Història, SERP Research Group, Secció de Prehistòria i Arqueologia, Institut d’Arqueologia-UB, Universitat de Barcelona, Montalegre, 6 , E-08001 , Barcelona , Spain

5. Institut für Ur-und Frühgeschichte Und Archäologie des Mittelalters, University of Tübingen, Hölderlinstr, 12, 72074 , Tübingen , Germany

6. Departament de Dinàmica de la Terra i de l’Oceà, Facultat de Ciències de la Terra, Universitat de Barcelona, C/Martí Franquès s/n, 08028 Barcelona , Spain

7. Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra CSIC-UGR, Universidad de Granada, Av. De las Palmeras, 4, 18100 Armilla , Granada , Spain

Abstract

Abstract This is the first mobility 87Sr/86Sr analysis in human remains made on the Balearic Islands. Eight human individuals buried at the same Late Iron Age funerary chamber of Son Ferrer site (Calvià, Mallorca) have been sampled for strontium and oxygen isotopic analysis (87Sr/86Sr and δ 18O). The study includes strontium and oxygen isotopic analysis of domestic mammals buried in the same Funerary Area (FA1) together with present-day vegetation and archaeological bone to assess the strontium isotopic ratios (87Sr/86Sr) around the site. All the results are compatible with the 87Sr/86Sr documented in Mallorca and, more specifically, with the surrounding bedrocks from the site. Humans, caprines, and dogs provided similar results and no significant differences are found between the species. The only exception is a caprine which shows seasonal movement through the period of enamel mineralisation. The isotopic information agrees with the previous studies, which proposed that Son Ferrer site was a symbolic place for the surrounding territory where people from the nearby villages were buried.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Education,Archeology,Conservation

Link

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/opar-2022-0302/pdf

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