An approach to the Galician Iron Age (s. IX-I BC): funerary and burial activities

Abstract

The following works examines the most difficult phenomenon to identify and characterise in the NW Iberia Iron Age: funerary and burial activities. The main goal is to outline a brief review of the current state of research, synthesising all the evidence available and trying to draw some common lines between them. Thus, an archaeological analysis of all the settlements with Iron Age chronologies and in which funerary practices may have been undertaken is proposed. This review seeks to define their characteristics, analyse their chronologies, and assess, as far as possible, their functionality. The presented data will be synthesised and correlated, attempting to draw some of their characteristics and to define, on a preliminary basis, a first approximation to the funerary practices of NW Iberia Iron Age.