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Rethinking Iberian ‘warrior’ stelae: a multidisciplinary investigation of Mirasiviene and its connection to Setefilla (Lora del Río, Seville, Spain) [dataset] Open Access

Iberian ‘warrior’ stelae have captured the imagination of researchers and the public for more than a century. Traditionally, stelae were considered ‘de-contextualised’ monuments, and research typically focused on the study of their iconography, paying little or no attention to their immediate contexts. As a result, despite the large number of these stelae known to date (c. 140) and the ample body of literature that has dealt with them, fundamental questions remain unanswered. This paper aims to demonstrate the potential of a multidisciplinary and contextual approach to push forward the research agenda on these monuments through a case study. Firstly, we introduce the Mirasiviene stela and the methods deployed for its investigation, which include a variety of digital imaging techniques, petrography, pXRF, intensive survey and multi-scalar spatial analysis. Secondly, we discuss the results in relation to three main topics: stela biography, social practices and landscape context. Comparisons to the well-known nearby Bronze Age and Iron Age site of Setefilla are made throughout the discussion. Ultimately, this paper makes a case for the stelae of Mirasiviene and Setefilla being polyvalent monuments made by local artisans, that served both as a landmarks and memorials in connection with dense late second and early first millennium BCE settlement patterns in the region. Probably linked to elites, ‘houses’ or kin groups of this time, stelae were set in symbolically-charged places, liminal spaces nearby water, burials and pathways, attracting a range of ritual activities throughout the centuries. The study of the newly discovered Mirasiviene stela shows that multidisciplinary, cutting-edge non-destructive archaeology can shed significant new light on these prehistoric monuments, thus providing a glimpse of what in our opinion is a paradigm shift in the research of similar monuments throughout Europe.

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Dataset

Contributors

Creator: Diaz-Guardamino, Marta ¹
Contact person: Diaz-Guardamino, Marta ¹
Data collector: Diaz-Guardamino, Marta ¹
Editor: Diaz-Guardamino, Marta ¹

¹ Durham University, United Kingdom

Funder

Research methods

Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) file of the stela and associated metadata file.

Other description

Keyword

Digital Archaeology
RTI

Subject

Antiquities, Prehistoric

Location

Seville, Andalusia, Spain

Language

English

Cited in

10.1007/s12520-019-00909-1

Identifier

ark:/32150/r2tb09j5674
doi:10.15128/r2tb09j5674

Rights

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC)

Publisher

Durham University

Date Created

23/10/2012

File Details

Depositor

M.M. Diaz Guardamino

Date Uploaded

11 August 2019, 18:08:39

Date Modified

13 August 2019, 18:08:55

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File format: zip (ZIP Format)

Mime type: application/zip

File size: 32038000

Last modified: 2019:08:13 15:52:04+01:00

Filename: RTI_dataset_Mirasiviene.zip

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