Historia de un golpe en la cabezasobre el enterramiento calcolítico del Hoyo 197 de "El Soto de Tovilla" (Tudela de Duero, Valladolid)

  1. Ángel Esparza Arroyo
  2. Germán Delibes de Castro
  3. Javier Velasco Vázquez
  4. Pedro Javier Cruz Sánchez
Journal:
BSAA Arqueología

ISSN: 1888-976X

Year of publication: 2008

Issue: 74

Pages: 9-48

Type: Article

More publications in: BSAA Arqueología

Abstract

Excavations at the site of Soto de Tovilla within the framework of Preventive Archaeology uncovered over 1,500 pits of different prehistoric periods. One of these features, dated to the Chalcolithic, first held a wooden structure, indicated by four post-holes. Then it was a pit burial containing the skeletal remains of a young man, radiocarbon (AMS) dated to 4065±35 BP, and a pottery vessel. His skull shows a severe cranial injury, whose etiology is discussed here. We interpret it as an indication of interpersonal violence. This leads us to review pit burials, and look at other violence cases in the Copper Age of the Northern Meseta.