"Lancea", Lusitanian Word, and the "Lancienses" Ethnogenesis

  • Martín Almagro-Gorbea Real Academia de la Historia Madrid
Keywords: Lancea, Lancienses, Lancius, Lusitani, Juventus, Mänerbunde

Abstract

Analysis of the word lancea, of Hispanic origin after Varro, and of place names, people´s names and personal names derived from it. It confirms that the spear was the most important weapon in the Bronze Age, belonging to the iuventus and used as heroic and divine symbol. This analysis confirms also the personality of the Lusitanians, a people related to the Celts but with more archaic archaeological, linguistic and cultural characteristics originated in the tradition of the Atlantic Bronze in the II millennium BC. It is also relevant to better know the organisation of Broze and Iron Age societies and the origin of Indo-Europeans peoples in Western Europe and of pre-Roman peoples of Iberia.

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Published
2016-07-14
How to Cite
Almagro-Gorbea M. (2016). "Lancea", Lusitanian Word, and the "Lancienses" Ethnogenesis. Complutum, 27(1), 131-168. https://doi.org/10.5209/CMPL.53220
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