Deconstructing Mesa de Montes (Cangas do Morrazo, Pontevedra). An Archaeohistorical approach to a Chalcolithic height settlement

In this paper we endeavour to study for the first time an assemblage of prehistoric materials from the only systematic archaeological digging done in such a well known and controversial site, which allegedly has a complex chronocultural sequence. Through the review of the partial references published to this day and the study of the materials at our disposal, we shall put forward a new interpretation of Mesa de Montes, setting it in the wider context of the Copper Age in Northwest Iberia