Iron Age archaeology in Europe and the Mediterranean often faces significant difficulties to establish precise chronological frameworks by means of radiocarbon dating due to the so-called Hallstatt Plateau. This problem worsens in those archaeological sites excavated decades ago with a lack of stratigraphic control of the objects recovered. The archaeological studies carried out in Iron Age funerary contexts from Mallorca (Balearic Islands) are greatly affected by these two distorting factors. Therefore, it has been difficult to establish an accurate chronology for the origin and abandonment of certain individualization practices, such as the use of wooden coffins in collective necropolises. The goal of this paper is to overcome these limitations and to define the most reliable chronological framework for this funerary phenomenon by applying a multi-proxy approach. Thus, the chronological information provided by the detailed typological study of the material culture associated with the wooden coffins was connected to the results obtained from an extensive series of new radiocarbon dating of the wooden coffins. In addition, a wiggle-matching analysis (different ¹⁴C dates for the same wooden object corresponding to individual tree-rings) was also conducted in some wooden coffins in order to enhance the precision of the radiocarbon dates. Accordingly, the direct and indirect chronological information show that the use of wooden coffins in Mallorca started around 800–750 cal BC and was abandoned at c. 350–300 cal BC.

由于所谓的哈尔施塔特高原，欧洲和地中海地区的铁器时代考古学经常面临很大困难，难以通过放射性碳测年建立精确的年代学框架。在几十年前由于缺乏对所回收物体的地层控制而发掘的考古遗址中，这一问题更加严重。在这两个扭曲因素的影响下，在马略卡岛（巴利阿里群岛）的铁器时代丧葬背景下进行的考古研究受到很大影响。因此，很难为某些个性化实践的起源和放弃建立准确的时间顺序，例如在集体墓地中使用木制棺材。本文的目的是要克服这些局限性，并通过采用多代理方法为这种丧葬现象定义最可靠的时间顺序框架。因此，由与木棺材有关的物质文化的详细类型学研究提供的时间信息与从一系列广泛的新的木棺材放射性碳定年获得的结果有关。此外，摆动匹配分析（不同为了提高放射性碳枣的精确度，还在一些木制棺材中进行了相同的木质物体的¹⁴ C枣树（对应于单个树环）的研究。因此，直接和间接的时间顺序信息表明，在马略卡岛使用木棺材始于大约公元前800-750年，在c时已被废弃。公元前350–300年。