Archaeographic and conceptual advances in interpreting Iberian Neolithisation

Prehistoric research has evolved, in the last decade, from a mere collaboration of disciplines into a new, trans-disciplinary, approach to Prehistoric contexts. New stable research teams, involving researchers with various scientific backgrounds (geology, botanic, anthropology, history, mathematics, geography, etc.) working together, have learned their diversified "vocabularies" and methodologies. As a main result, a more holistic approach to Prehistory is to be considered. Previous models of the Neolithic on the Atlantic side of Iberia were focused on material culture and strict economics (this being an important improvement concerning previous typological series). Current research became open to discussing the meaning ofconcepts like "food production", "chiefdom" or "territory". It also dropped the "Portuguese/Spanish" frontier that pervaded previous models (to the limited exception of some interpretations for megaliths). Finally, new and important data is now confirming that the "Cardial Neolithic" coastal spread was only one, and a minor element in the Neolithisation of the western seaboard.Prazgodovinske raziskave so v zadnjem desetletju na osnovi sodelovanja različnih disciplin dosegle nov, transdisciplinarni pristop k prazgodovini. Strokovnjaki z različnih znanstvenih področij (geologija, botanika, antropologija, zgodovina, matematika, geografija itd.), zbrani v novih stalnih raziskovalnih ekipah, so se spoznali z različnimi strokovnimi besednjaki in metodologijami. Glavni rezultat tega je bolj celosten pristop k prazgodovini. Prejšnji modeli neolitika na atlantski strani Iberskega polotoka so se osredotočali na materialno kulturo in gospodarstvo v ozkem pomenu besede (kar je pomemben napredek v primerjavi zgolj s tipologijo). Današnje raziskave pa so odprte za razpravljanje o pomenu konceptov, kot so “proizvodnja hrane”, “poglavarstvo” in “teritorij”... Ravno tako smo presegli omejevanje z mejo Portugalska/Španija, ki je vplivala na starejše modele (z delno izjemo nekaterih interpretacij megalitov). In končno, novi in pomembni podatki sedaj potrjujejo, da je bilo razširjanje impresso cardium neolitika ob obali le eno in da je bil to le manj pomemben element pri neolitizaciji zahodne obale