entity · arch_iberia1_motilla_system
Motilla settlement system
Also known as: Motillas, Bronze of La Mancha motillas
Archaeological classification for monumental mound settlements in La Mancha with varied fortification, storage, settlement and water-management evidence.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
1600 BCE–1350 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · provides archaeological observation
The first uses of groundwater in the Iberian Peninsula. The Daimiel “motillas” in the Bronze Age of La Mancha — M. Mejías Moreno, L. Benítez de Lugo Enrich, J. del Pozo Tejado, J. Moraleda Sierra (2014)Supports the settlement and hydraulic classification.
Locator: pp. 455–474, motilla distribution and groundwater evidence - informs · provides archaeological observation
Water control and cereal management on the Bronze Age Iberian Peninsula: La motilla del Azuer — Gonzalo Aranda, Sergio Fernández, Martín Haro, Francisco Molina, Trinidad Nájera, Margarita Sánchez (2008)Provides the best-documented site case.
Locator: pp. 241–259
Research description
The label describes an archaeological form and regional system, not a self-designated people or necessarily centralized polity.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Archaeological label, not an ethnonym
A modern archaeological grouping that is not an ancient people-name.
Why does this record have this property?
Shared architecture and regional distribution do not establish a self-designated population.
- The first uses of groundwater in the Iberian Peninsula. The Daimiel “motillas” in the Bronze Age of La Mancha
supports assignment and caveat · pp. 455–474
Evidence and sources
- supports · provides archaeological observation
The first uses of groundwater in the Iberian Peninsula. The Daimiel “motillas” in the Bronze Age of La Mancha — M. Mejías Moreno, L. Benítez de Lugo Enrich, J. del Pozo Tejado, J. Moraleda Sierra (2014)Supports the settlement and hydraulic classification.
Locator: pp. 455–474, motilla distribution and groundwater evidence - supports · provides archaeological observation
Water control and cereal management on the Bronze Age Iberian Peninsula: La motilla del Azuer — Gonzalo Aranda, Sergio Fernández, Martín Haro, Francisco Molina, Trinidad Nájera, Margarita Sánchez (2008)Provides the best-documented site case.
Locator: pp. 241–259
Referenced records
- La Mancha and Meseta interaction frame · entity
- Geography assertion for arch_iberia1_motilla_system · geography assertion