Such were the prehistoric jewels of a Grenadian town of about 7,000 years

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Such were the prehistoric jewels of a Grenadian town of about 7,000 years







During the Neolithic, the populations already handled the stone, and they designed and manufactured jewels of diverse materials, like those that have been in a town of Eastern Andalusia, in the place of the Peñas de los Gitanos (Spain) located at 1,050 meters above the sea. This area was inhabited from prehistory to the Middle Ages.



The town of Los Castillejos is part of a larger archaeological site and was declared an Asset of Cultural Interest in 1996 and includes caves, shelters, villages and necropolises, among which the megalithic necropolis stands out.



In the site, a team of scientists found between 1991 and 1994 several objects of personal adornment. Now archaeologists Claudia Pau and Juan A. Cámara Serrano of the University of Granada have been able to identify six different categories of ornaments: pendants, beads, ring and conical elements, pins and jagged elements.



In the study, published in the magazine Archeology, the experts determined the use and age of each of the jewels according to their morphology and the materials used.



According to scientists, several types of objects are recurrent over time. "They appear in the oldest phases and disappear and return to meet in the most recent phases, while other jewels characterize only some cultural periods," Sinc Claudia Pau points out.







Some of the jagged elements found in the site of the town of Los Castillejos in Granada. (Photo: Claudia Pau et al.)



"The annular elements in stone characterize the sixth millennium before Christ, while the shell bracelets are more recent," says the expert.



This is the case of the designs made with shells. "The annular elements in stone characterize the sixth millennium before Christ, while the shell bracelets are more recent," says the expert.



Thus, shell bracelets appear for the first time in the Middle Neolithic (beginning of the 5th Millennium BC) and continue throughout the recent Neolithic period (until the last third of the 4th Millennium BC). The study emphasizes that this chronological distribution of shell bracelets can have important implications for the dating of the first phases of use of megalithic contexts where these bracelets are often frequent.



"Therefore, we can propose that many megalithic tombs were in use at least since the late Neolithic. In addition, there are typologies that are present only at the most recent levels, such as bitroncoconical accounts (with circular plane shapes), "the authors clarify.



Archaeologists also appreciated a change in the shape of the rectangular pendants; "From very irregular forms in the oldest stages, we will go to subrectangular forms with rounded angles and finally to more straight forms in the most recent specimens".



"The forms and traces of use indicate that the beads, pendants and some ring elements would be used to make complex ornaments such as necklaces and bracelets, or to decorate the head or clothing, while other ring elements would be used as decorations for the wrists, the forearms or the ankles ", they conclude. (Source: SINC)

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