Kinship and Residence in Copper Age Iberia: Insights from aDNA and Strontium Isotope Analyses

Societies that inhabited Iberia in the third millennium BCE transitioned through profound changes related to economy, settlement patterns, religion or social organization. These transformations would lead to the conformation of a completely different system in the Bronze Age. Understanding both the...

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Autores: Cintas Peña, Marta, Herrero Corral, Ana Mercedes
Tipo de recurso: capítulo de libro
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Fecha de publicación:2025
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
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residence
Copper Age
aDNA
strontium isotopes
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spelling Kinship and Residence in Copper Age Iberia: Insights from aDNA and Strontium Isotope AnalysesCintas Peña, MartaHerrero Corral, Ana MercedeskinshipresidenceCopper AgeaDNAstrontium isotopesSocieties that inhabited Iberia in the third millennium BCE transitioned through profound changes related to economy, settlement patterns, religion or social organization. These transformations would lead to the conformation of a completely different system in the Bronze Age. Understanding both the Copper Age itself, as well as its collapse, implies having a certain knowledge on how its social structure operated, for which addressing issues such as kinship and residence are crucial. This is currently possible thanks to the application of aDNA and 87Sr/86Sr analyses, techniques that at different speeds are being employed in the research of Chalcolithic contexts. In this paper we aim to summarize the current state of knowledge in relation to kinship and residence in Chalcolithic Iberia by providing a complete record of aDNA and 87Sr/86Sr information, evaluating the data critically, and contextualizing it within the European framework. Our analysis suggests, first, the existence of a quantitatively important difference between data available for 87Sr/86Sr and that for aDNA; secondly, a limitation of usefulness of the data to address residence or kinship; thirdly, a more complex Iberian than European scenario. Despite the current difficulties and limitations, prospects seem to be promising, and it is reasonable to expect a big leap forward in our comprehension of Copper Age kinship and residence in the near future.European Commission (EC) HORIZON-MSCA 2021-PF-01-101062307European Commission (EC) HORIZON-MSCA-GA891776Sidestone PressPrehistoria y ArqueologíaEuropean Commission (EC)2025info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPartinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/11441/179500reponame:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevillainstname:Universidad de Sevilla (US)InglésA Social Archaeology of Kinship in Iberia and Beyond: Recent Multistranded Approaches from aDNA to Household ArchaeologyHORIZON-MSCA 2021-PF-01-101062307HORIZON-MSCA-GA891776Leideninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:idus.us.es:11441/1795002026-06-17T12:51:07Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Kinship and Residence in Copper Age Iberia: Insights from aDNA and Strontium Isotope Analyses
title Kinship and Residence in Copper Age Iberia: Insights from aDNA and Strontium Isotope Analyses
spellingShingle Kinship and Residence in Copper Age Iberia: Insights from aDNA and Strontium Isotope Analyses
Cintas Peña, Marta
kinship
residence
Copper Age
aDNA
strontium isotopes
title_short Kinship and Residence in Copper Age Iberia: Insights from aDNA and Strontium Isotope Analyses
title_full Kinship and Residence in Copper Age Iberia: Insights from aDNA and Strontium Isotope Analyses
title_fullStr Kinship and Residence in Copper Age Iberia: Insights from aDNA and Strontium Isotope Analyses
title_full_unstemmed Kinship and Residence in Copper Age Iberia: Insights from aDNA and Strontium Isotope Analyses
title_sort Kinship and Residence in Copper Age Iberia: Insights from aDNA and Strontium Isotope Analyses
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Cintas Peña, Marta
Herrero Corral, Ana Mercedes
author Cintas Peña, Marta
author_facet Cintas Peña, Marta
Herrero Corral, Ana Mercedes
author_role author
author2 Herrero Corral, Ana Mercedes
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dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Prehistoria y Arqueología
European Commission (EC)
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv kinship
residence
Copper Age
aDNA
strontium isotopes
topic kinship
residence
Copper Age
aDNA
strontium isotopes
description Societies that inhabited Iberia in the third millennium BCE transitioned through profound changes related to economy, settlement patterns, religion or social organization. These transformations would lead to the conformation of a completely different system in the Bronze Age. Understanding both the Copper Age itself, as well as its collapse, implies having a certain knowledge on how its social structure operated, for which addressing issues such as kinship and residence are crucial. This is currently possible thanks to the application of aDNA and 87Sr/86Sr analyses, techniques that at different speeds are being employed in the research of Chalcolithic contexts. In this paper we aim to summarize the current state of knowledge in relation to kinship and residence in Chalcolithic Iberia by providing a complete record of aDNA and 87Sr/86Sr information, evaluating the data critically, and contextualizing it within the European framework. Our analysis suggests, first, the existence of a quantitatively important difference between data available for 87Sr/86Sr and that for aDNA; secondly, a limitation of usefulness of the data to address residence or kinship; thirdly, a more complex Iberian than European scenario. Despite the current difficulties and limitations, prospects seem to be promising, and it is reasonable to expect a big leap forward in our comprehension of Copper Age kinship and residence in the near future.
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