Jewellery as context
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This paper considers jewellery as an archaeological item in context which, at the same time, is a contextualizer object, chronological and identitarian marker. With this idea as a starting point, I go through three case studies from different periods: Orientalizing, Iberian and Islamic. Each of them poses its particular situation over the archaeological praxis: the context of jewellery and its depiction; the absence of context, plundering and collectors; and the trap that the context itself could set to the archaeologist.
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