La definición del Hierro Antiguo en el castro de Las Cogotas (Cardeñosa, Ávila). Consideraciones sobre algunos materiales del Museo Arqueológico Nacional

Abstract

This paper reviews some ceramic and metallic objects stored in the National Archaeological Museum (Madrid) which share their supposed or proved provenience from Las Cogotas site (Cardeñosa, Avila) and their generic chronological attribution to the beginnings of the Iron Age. The lot is important as it characterizes the diffuse occupation at that period in the hillfort acropolis, despite the difficulties involved in its study due to the lack of information about their context. It is assumed that the selected materials are a significant sample that helps to qualify the apparent gap between the well-known stages of the end of the Bronze Age (‘Cogotas I Culture’) and the Late Iron Age. The joint analysis of the materials and their territorial contextualization allows to strengthening the hypothesis of the existence of this intermediate stage, in a site whose occupation was uninterrupted, according to our knowledge of other contemporary sites.