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Late Prehistoric Stelae, Persistent Places and Connected Worlds: A Multi-Disciplinary Review of the Evidence at Almargen (Lands of Antequera, Spain)

Díaz-Guardamino, M.; García Sanjuán, L.; Wheatley, D.; Lozano Rodríguez, J.A.; Rogerio Candelera, M.A.; Casado Ariza, M.

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Authors

L. García Sanjuán

D. Wheatley

J.A. Lozano Rodríguez

M.A. Rogerio Candelera

M. Casado Ariza



Abstract

This paper examines how monuments with ‘local’ idiosyncrasies are key in processes of place-making and how, through persistence, such places can engage in supra-local and even ‘global’ dynamics. Departing from a detailed revision of its context, materiality and iconography, we show how a remarkable Iberian ‘warrior’ stela brings together the geo-strategic potential of a unique site, located literally between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic worlds, the century-long dialogue between shared and local identities and the power of connectivity of inexorable global processes. Previous approaches to Iberian late prehistoric stelae have had problems in developing bottom-up, theoretically informed and empirically sound approaches to their simultaneously local and supra-local character. The remarkable site of Almargen provides the opportunity to explore this issue. Located in Lands of Antequera (Málaga), a region with a strong tradition of landscape-making through monuments going back to the Late Neolithic, the Almargen ‘warrior’ stela serves us to explore the notion of ‘glocalization’, which embodies persistent local engagements with material culture, sites and landscapes on the one hand, and their connections with wider regional and even ‘global’ worlds on the other.

Citation

Díaz-Guardamino, M., García Sanjuán, L., Wheatley, D., Lozano Rodríguez, J., Rogerio Candelera, M., & Casado Ariza, M. (2020). Late Prehistoric Stelae, Persistent Places and Connected Worlds: A Multi-Disciplinary Review of the Evidence at Almargen (Lands of Antequera, Spain). Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 30(1), 69-96. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0959774319000490

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jul 2, 2019
Online Publication Date Oct 30, 2019
Publication Date Mar 1, 2020
Deposit Date Dec 3, 2018
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Cambridge Archaeological Journal
Print ISSN 0959-7743
Electronic ISSN 1474-0540
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 30
Issue 1
Pages 69-96
DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/s0959774319000490

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This article has been published will be published in a revised form in Cambridge archaeological journal. http://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774319000490. This version is published under a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND. No commercial re-distribution or re-use allowed. Derivative works cannot be distributed. COPYRIGHT: © McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research 2019.




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