Late prehistoric stelae, persistent places and connected worlds: a multi-disciplinary review of the evidence at Almargen (lands of Antequera, Spain)
Late prehistoric stelae, persistent places and connected worlds: a multi-disciplinary review of the evidence at Almargen (lands of Antequera, Spain)
This paper examines how monuments with 'local' idiosyncrasies are key in processes of place-making and how, through persistence, such places can engage in supra-local and even 'global' dynamics. Departing from a detailed revision of its context, materiality and iconography, we show how a remarkable Iberian 'warrior' stela brings together the geo-strategic potential of a unique site, located literally between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic worlds, the century-long dialogue between shared and local identities and the power of connectivity of inexorable global processes. Previous approaches to Iberian late prehistoric stelae have had problems in developing bottom-up, theoretically informed and empirically sound approaches to their simultaneously local and supra-local character. The remarkable site of Almargen provides the opportunity to explore this issue. Located in Lands of Antequera (Málaga), a region with a strong tradition of landscape-making through monuments going back to the Late Neolithic, the Almargen 'warrior' stela serves us to explore the notion of 'glocalization', which embodies persistent local engagements with material culture, sites and landscapes on the one hand, and their connections with wider regional and even 'global' worlds on the other.
Warrior stela, Late Prehistory, Placemaking, Persistent place, Glocalisation, Iberia, Chaine operatoire, Digital Imaging, Petrography, Archaeology, Rock Art, Chalcolithic, Bronze Age, Spain
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Diaz-Guardamino Uribe, Marta M
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Garcia Sanjuan, Leonardo
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Wheatley, David W.
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Lozano Rodríguez, José Antonio
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Rogerio-Candelera, Miguel Ángel
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1 February 2020
Diaz-Guardamino Uribe, Marta M
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Garcia Sanjuan, Leonardo
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Wheatley, David W.
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Lozano Rodríguez, José Antonio
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Rogerio-Candelera, Miguel Ángel
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Diaz-Guardamino Uribe, Marta M, Garcia Sanjuan, Leonardo, Wheatley, David W., Lozano Rodríguez, José Antonio and Rogerio-Candelera, Miguel Ángel
(2020)
Late prehistoric stelae, persistent places and connected worlds: a multi-disciplinary review of the evidence at Almargen (lands of Antequera, Spain).
Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 30 (1), .
(doi:10.1017/S0959774319000490).
Abstract
This paper examines how monuments with 'local' idiosyncrasies are key in processes of place-making and how, through persistence, such places can engage in supra-local and even 'global' dynamics. Departing from a detailed revision of its context, materiality and iconography, we show how a remarkable Iberian 'warrior' stela brings together the geo-strategic potential of a unique site, located literally between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic worlds, the century-long dialogue between shared and local identities and the power of connectivity of inexorable global processes. Previous approaches to Iberian late prehistoric stelae have had problems in developing bottom-up, theoretically informed and empirically sound approaches to their simultaneously local and supra-local character. The remarkable site of Almargen provides the opportunity to explore this issue. Located in Lands of Antequera (Málaga), a region with a strong tradition of landscape-making through monuments going back to the Late Neolithic, the Almargen 'warrior' stela serves us to explore the notion of 'glocalization', which embodies persistent local engagements with material culture, sites and landscapes on the one hand, and their connections with wider regional and even 'global' worlds on the other.
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Accepted/In Press date: 2 July 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: 30 October 2019
Published date: 1 February 2020
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We would like to thank John Robb and the external reviewers for their helpful comments on an earlier version of this paper. We are very grateful to Francisco Morón and Trinidad Angel for permission and support to conduct this study. We also thank Fernando Villaseca for information on the excavation conducted at Las Madrigueras, and for access to a sample of the assemblages recovered. A.Z. Miller is gratefully acknowledged for her collaboration with the FESEM and María del Carmen Moreno for providing mapping information. Our thanks also to Gonzalo Aranda for his kind invitation to present an initial version of this paper at the III Congress of Andalusian Prehistory (Antequera, 2014). This study has been conducted within the project ‘Nature, Society and Monumentality: High Resolution Archaeological Investigations on the Megalithic Landscape of Antequera’ (HAR2013-45149-P) (2014–2017), funded by the National R&D Plan of the Spanish Government. It has also been carried out as part of the project ‘Societies, Territories and Landscapes in the Prehistory of Antequera (Málaga)’ (2013–18), approved by the Andalusian Government.
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Warrior stela, Late Prehistory, Placemaking, Persistent place, Glocalisation, Iberia, Chaine operatoire, Digital Imaging, Petrography, Archaeology, Rock Art, Chalcolithic, Bronze Age, Spain
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