entity · arch_iberia1_southwest_stelae_tradition
Southwest stelae tradition
Also known as: warrior stelae, southwest Iberian stelae
Modern corpus label for carved stone monuments distributed across parts of southwest Iberia.
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.
1300 BCE–800 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · supports distribution
Late Bronze Age stelae in the Guadalquivir valley and Sierra Morena: spatial distribution and new perspectives of research — Manuel Eleazar Costa Caramé (2013)Provides the spatial corpus and research cautions.
Locator: pp. 76–94 and distribution maps - informs · provides archaeological observation
Un paisaje funerario singular de la Edad del Bronce del Suroeste: la necrópolis y la estela del Alto de la Cruz de Piedra — Luis Berrocal-Rangel, Alfredo Mederos Martin, Rafael Caso Amador, Manuel Rodríguez Rastrojo (2023)Provides one contextual funerary association.
Locator: pp. 129–143
Research description
The corpus has broad and disputed chronology; findspot distributions and carved motifs do not define a kingdom, tribe or single function.
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?
Carved monuments do not name a people or polity.
- Late Bronze Age stelae in the Guadalquivir valley and Sierra Morena: spatial distribution and new perspectives of research
supports assignment and caveat · pp. 76–94
Distribution is not a political territory
A material or monument distribution does not by itself define a border or state.
Why does this record have this property?
Movement, reuse and uneven context make the distribution an analytical corpus only.
- Late Bronze Age stelae in the Guadalquivir valley and Sierra Morena: spatial distribution and new perspectives of research
supports assignment and caveat · distribution maps
Evidence and sources
- supports · supports distribution
Late Bronze Age stelae in the Guadalquivir valley and Sierra Morena: spatial distribution and new perspectives of research — Manuel Eleazar Costa Caramé (2013)Provides the spatial corpus and research cautions.
Locator: pp. 76–94 and distribution maps - supports · provides archaeological observation
Un paisaje funerario singular de la Edad del Bronce del Suroeste: la necrópolis y la estela del Alto de la Cruz de Piedra — Luis Berrocal-Rangel, Alfredo Mederos Martin, Rafael Caso Amador, Manuel Rodríguez Rastrojo (2023)Provides one contextual funerary association.
Locator: pp. 129–143
Referenced records
- Guadalquivir and southwest Iberian interaction frame · entity
- Geography assertion for arch_iberia1_southwest_stelae_tradition · geography assertion