Inspired by the biographical approach to the study of material culture, a radiocarbon dating programme was undertaken to explore the chronology and temporality of the megalithic monuments in south-eastern Iberia. Instead of one or two dates per tomb, the normal way of approaching this complex issue, we carried out a complete radiocarbon dating series of single tombs based on human remains. We focused our attention on four tholos-type tombs in the cemetery of El Barranquete (Almería, Spain). According to the new radiocarbon series modelled in a Bayesian framework, four main conclusions can be drawn: that the cemetery shows a very long period of funerary activity, which began in the late fourth millennium and ended in the last centuries of the second millennium calbc; that continuity of ritual practices attained an unexpected importance during the Bronze Age; that interments, which fall into cultural periods that would be unthinkable if only the typological properties of the grave goods were considered, occurred; and that each tomb had a complex and very different biography.

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文化连续性和社会抵抗：伊比利亚南部巨石葬礼的年表

受到物质文化研究的传记方法的启发，开展了一项放射性碳测年计划，以探索伊比利亚东南部巨石纪念碑的年代学和时间性。我们不是每个坟墓一个或两个日期，这是处理这个复杂问题的正常方法，而是基于人类遗骸对单个坟墓进行了完整的放射性碳测年系列。我们将注意力集中在 El Barranquete（西班牙阿尔梅里亚）公墓中的四个 tholos 型墓葬上。根据在贝叶斯框架中建模的新放射性碳系列，可以得出四个主要结论：墓地显示出一段很长的葬礼活动，从第四个千年后期开始，到第二个千年的最后几个世纪结束。公元前; 在青铜时代，仪式实践的连续性获得了意想不到的重要性；如果只考虑随葬品的类型特性，就无法想象属于文化时期的葬礼发生了；并且每个坟墓都有一个复杂且非常不同的传记。