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  • Alto del Mural/Camino de los Aguanares
  • Cogollos
  • Alto del Mural
  • Spain
  • Castille and León
  • Burgos
  • Hontoria de la Cantera

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Chronology

  • 1620 BC - 1430 BC
  • 420 AD - 590 AD

Season

    • At this site, organised into two terraced floors of a wasteland breakwater, two archaeological interventions were conducted, measuring 2,371 and 1,096 square metres. The works allowed us to document 31 and 13 negative archaeological structures, respectively, in addition to some not very thick midden areas. These structures overlap and correspond to two different chrono-cultural moments. Twenty-one of these structures are attributed to the Bronze Age, mainly midden-silos and some post holes related to a habitat area that was not inhabited for long and was organised into dispersed, separate points. The archaeological material positions this site at the beginning of the middle Cogotas I; the time frame is supported by two consistent radiocarbon dates, 1620-1430 cal BC and 1690-1490 cal BC. Comparative analysis with another two similar establishments in the Arlanzón region enabled us to dconfirm a rapid dissemination of formal and ornamental patterns in the north-eastern border, peripheral to the upper and middle Ebro; although it supposedly took place later, the Protocogotas/Cogotas I transition in 1500 (1550 cal BC) could be established here. Eighteen negative structures are attributed to a rural dating to Late Antiquity next to several midden dumps. Functionally the structures are divided into containing and delimitation ditches, storage silos, middens, graves, post holes, a well/tank and an undetermined structure which might be considered a pen. Analysis of associated archaeological material and the three radiocarbon tests establish the occupation from the end of 5th century to the middle of the 6th c. AD; thus, the site seems to be a settlement with various housing units where autarkic models, such as lithic industry, hunting, and so on, were used. The remaining structures could not be related with any certainty to one occupation or another in the absence of archaeological material or stratigraphic juxtapositions.

Bibliography

    • Alonso Fernández, C.; Jiménez Echevarría J. (2010): El yacimiento arqueológico Alto del Mural/Camino de los Aguanares (Cogollos, Burgos). Análisis del repertorio cerámico y tránsito a la tardoantigüedad en la comarca burgalesa del Arlanzón-Arlanza, ENEL-ENDESA-PRORENER, Vitoria.
    • Alonso Fernández, C.; Jiménez Echevarría, J. (2012): “El tránsito Protocogotas/Cogotas I Pleno en el límite de la zona nuclear: análisis comparativo de tres yacimientos de la comarca del Arlanzón (Burgos)”. En Rodríguez Marcos, J.A. Y Fernández Manzano, J. (eds.) (2012): Cogotas I: una cultura de la Edad del Bronce en la Península Ibérica, Universidad de Valladolid, pp. 361-376.