El mundo funerario del Bronce Final en la fachada atlántica de la Península Ibérica. I Análisis de la documentación

One of the most important characteristics of all the Atlantic part of the Iberian Peninsula during the final phase of the Later Bronze Age is the absence of burials. In fact, this characteristic is shared by all the Atlantic areas in Westem Europe. This phenomenon gets progressively older as one moves northward. Attempts have been made to fill this void with various discoveries. In this paper we deal with those graves considered as belonging to the Later Bronze Age and it has been demonstrated that they have been wrongly attributed to that date and that they are not true burials. As a result, the absence of burials must be explained by using hypothesis different from the search for cemeteries as traditionally understood.La fachada atlántica de la Península Ibérica se caracteriza durante la fase final de la Edad del Bronce por una marcada ausencia de sepulturas. Esto es en realidad una norma común al mundo atlántico de toda Europa occidental, donde la desaparición de tumbas después del Bronce Medio es más antigua conforme más al norte. En el presente trabajo se aborda el estudio de las sepulturas consideradas del Bronce Final, y se llega a demostrar que se trata de atribuciones que no resisten una revisión critica profunda. En consecuencia, la ausencia de enterramientos debe explicarse elaborando hipótesis distintas a la búsqueda de necrópolis entendidas al estilo tradicional