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  • Fresh insights into sex-specific mobility in copper age perdigões (Reguengos de Monsaraz, Portugal) provided by amelogenin peptide analysis
    Publication . Cintas-Peña, Marta; Evangelista, Lucy Shaw; Valera, António; Sanjuán, Leonardo García; Rebay-Salisbury, Katharina; Koenig, Claire; Olsen, Jesper V.; Kanz, Fabian
    Sex estimation based on amelogenin peptides in dental enamel has opened up possibilities to study prehistoric demography in a new light. The application of this technique is of particular importance for the analysis of prehistoric collective burials, where the commingled and disarticulated nature of human remains makes sex estimations challenging. This paper presents data on the sex of 35 individuals from the Late Neolithic-Chalcolithic site of Perdigões (Reguengos de Monsaraz, Portugal), obtained by amelogenin peptide analysis of dental enamel. The results are combined with observations on chronological and spatial distribution of the burial structures as well as strontium isotope data obtained from the same teeth. The new evidence enables the analysis of sex-specific mobility patterns, even at a site where the large majority of human remains discovered to date (MNI=565) are heavily commingled and highly fragmented. The results show a greater number of males (n =6) than females (n=2) among the local individuals, and a balance between males (n=14) and females (n=13) among nonlocal ones, suggesting similar mobility for both sexes. These results are contextualized with the evidence available both for the Iberian Peninsula and the European continent. The greater female mobility observed at sites with similar chronologies in Central Europe, which has been interpreted in terms of female exogamy and patrilocality, is not replicated at Perdigões, where males and females have similar strontium isotope values.
    2025-03-29Artigo científico Acesso restrito Ver mais
  • In the bosom of the Earth: a new megalithic monument at the Antequera World Heritage Site
    Publication . García Sanjuán, Leonardo; Wheatley, David W.; Lozano Rodríguez, José Antonio; Evangelista, Lucy; González García, Antonio César; Cintas-Peña, Marta; Díaz-Guardamino, Marta; Nieto, Verónica Balsera; Montero Artús, Raquel; Kanz, Fabian; Rebay-Salisbury, Katharina; Jiménez Espejo, Francisco J.; Rivera Jiménez, Timoteo
    Antequera in southern Spain is widely recognised as an outstanding example of the European megalithic phe-nomenon. One of its most remarkable features is the evident relationship between conspicuous natural for-mations and human-built monuments. Here, the authors report the results of their investigation of a tomb newly discovered at the site of Piedras Blancas at the foot of La Pena de los Enamorados, a limestone massif that dominates the Antequera plain. Excavation and multidisciplinary study, including geological, architectural and archaeoastronomical investigations, have revealed a complex funerary monument that is part natural, part built, part hypogeum, part megalith. The results emphasise the centrality of La Pena in the Neolithic worldview and encouragewider investigation of prehistoric place-making.
    2023Artigo científico Acesso aberto Ver mais