Arqueología de la muerte y el estudio de la sociedad: una visión desde el género en la Cultura Ibérica

Abstract

This paper aims to present different lines of research concerning the funerary spaces in the Iberian Culture from a social and gender perspective. We start out the hypothesis according to the reconstruction and interpretation of the process of death as a cultural fact with its archaeological limits. The study of death offers precious dates about the organisation characteristics, and at the same time, the beliefs, perceptions and values of the past societies. In this line, we value the lecture of the funerary space in Iberia, as a physical mean with functions in the construction of the identity; with a religious and social dimension; we consider order guide lines, scales of monuments, burials of familiar groups and couples. We stopped in the funerary rituals that reveal characteristics of ethnic, social, family, gender and age groups. Finally, we point out the values of the iconography programmes in the funerary monuments; and the richness, diversity and prevalence of the feminine image in the Middle Iberian period that shows different categories of age and gender.