出版社：Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
摘要：This paper presents the results obtained from a review of the archaeological record available for the prehistoric site of Valencina de la Concepción (Seville, Spain), one of the most important settlements of SW Iberia in the 3 rd and 2 nd millennia BC. Two main variables, namely demography and metallurgical production, are examined in the light of both conventional and spatial statistical methods (with particular emphasis on significance testing) with the aim of assessing the wider issue of social complexity. Among the various conclusions emerging from this empirical study, two stand out. Firstly, neither the correlation between the total extension of the settlement and the complexity of its internal organisation, nor the spatial delimitation between domestic/productive and funerary practices is as straightforward as previously claimed. Secondly, no simple, clear-cut statistical patterns are found in the spatial distribution of human remains or metal objects. These conclusions provide the basis for a critique of currently held interpretations of Valencina de la Concepción as the political centre of an early state extending across the lower Guadalquivir valley.
关键词：Copper Age;Bronze Age;Iberian Peninsula;Guadalquivir valley;Demography;Physical anthropology;Metallurgy;Megaliths;Spatial analysis;Statistical significance testing;Social complexity;Edad del Cobre;Edad del Bronce;Península Ibérica;Valle del Guadalquivir;Demografía;Antropología física;Metalurgia;Megalitismo;Análisis espacial;Pruebas de significación estadística;Complejidad social
