Abstract
This paper examines the ritual and symbolic spheres of the Cogotas I Culture focusing on the social practices implicated in its material record. Taking some confusing historiographic themes as a starting point, a more relational and synoptic sociological framework is presented, inspired by non-positivist proposals. Highlighted is the particular “historical” and interactive relationship kept by such communities with their past, as well as the importance of the everyday ritualized activities in the reproduction of their cultural values. The paper requires a trial of new methods for studying the Cogotas I archaeological record, whose formation and legibility would be the product of such structured and repetitive patterns. As an example, “pit sites” understood as palimpsests, the filling of the pits and the pottery with “Boquique” decoration are reexamined. Such ordinary and daily elements, embedded in long-term cultural traditions, are seen as mnemonic resources, with an important role in the enculturation of the social agents.
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This paper examines the ritual and symbolic spheres of the Cogotas I Culture focusing on the social practices implicated in its material record
Tras el importante volumen de excavaciones arqueológicas acometidas, hoy día no puede invocarse ya lo aleatorio y poco representativo de nuestros conocimientos, ni la deficiente conservación del registro, para explicar algunos de los caracteres más controvertidos de Cogotas I
Soria): Espacio y simbolismo en los inicios de la Edad del Bronce
Summary
El estudio de las sociedades de la Edad del Bronce en la Meseta –entre las cuales Cogotas I ocupa un gran protagonismo– ha progresado en la última década al socaire de nuevos objetivos que animan una agenda investigadora algo anquilosada, y unas evidencias consideradas ingratas e inexpresivas (Fernández-Posse 1998: 114). Pocas veces se reflexiona sobre el orden ritual o simbólico de esta cultura, y ello a pesar de las perspectivas de estudio atisbadas desde tales aproximaciones (Valiente Maya 1993; González-Tablas y Fano Martínez 1994; Bellido Blanco 1996: 45-48; Delibes de Castro 2000/01; Enríquez y Drake 2007: 164-173). Nuestra hipótesis de partida asume que parte de las trazas materiales de Cogotas I no son meros restos inservibles, sino producto de actuaciones deliberadas, que siguen unas normas o esquemas de comportamiento compartidos y sancionados por los colectivos prehistóricos, es decir, que serían fruto de prácticas sociales
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