A06_P05

Archeometric research of samples from Huelva La Joya (SW Iberia)

Michalska D¹,  Krueger M², Mrozek-Wysocka M¹, Moreno Megías V³

¹Adam Mickiewicz University, Institute of Geology, Poznań, Poland, ²Faculty of Archeology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland, ³Departamento de Prehistoria y Arqueologia, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville,  Spain

Samples from the cemetery of Huelva La Joya (Spain) excavated in the sixties and seventies of the 20th century have been analyzed in order to refine the chronology of the grave archaeologically attributed to the early Iron Age. In the grave no. 9 a double burial, cremation and inhumation, accompanying by rich grave goods of local and foreign provenance were found. The radiocarbon dating of selected charcoal fragments was compared with the relative chronology. Samples from the cemetery were carefully analyzed. Selected fragments of charcoals were also identified.

Then, the results obtained for the Huelva La Joya site were compared with the results of ¹⁴C measurements for the archaeological material from the Setefilla site. These results showed that the biconic bowls are much older than originally thought, the oldest ones dating back to the last centuries of the Bronze Age.