In 2003, as part of an emergency excavation, a tomb with grave goods was discovered at the open-air site of Camí de Missena. It is dated to the first half of the 5th millennium BC. The fieldwork, the results of the analysis of the bone and dental remains, studies of the manufacture, techniques and restoration of the ceramic vessel, as well as the post-depositional processes that affected the burial and that have been used in the reconstruction of the funerary ritual are presented. The significance of the
The aim of this paper is to provide a synthesis of chronologically related cave and open-air burials in the regional Neolithic panorama.
A tomb in a village from the 5th millennium B.C.E. About the burial in a pit at the Neolithic site of Camí de Missena (La Pobla del Duc, Valencia). (2017)
By: Gómez Pérez, Olga, Lozano Ruiz, Marina, Pascual Benito, Josep Lluís, Pérez Mateu, Manuel, Roca Alberola, Silvia, Roca de Togores Muñoz, Consuelo, Soler Díaz, Jorge A.
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Author(s):
Gómez Pérez, Olga, Lozano Ruiz, Marina, Pascual Benito, Josep Lluís, Pérez Mateu, Manuel, Roca Alberola, Silvia, Roca de Togores Muñoz, Consuelo, Soler Díaz, Jorge A.
Year: 2017
Series: MARQ Magazine. Archaeology and Museum
Order: 95
Publication:
MARQ, ARCHAEOLOGY AND MUSEUMS 08
