Dancing in the Dark? The westernmost “Cypriot” knot-headed pin from Aïn Smene (Morocco)
The present article presents a review of a singular find of a copper pin together with Bell Beaker items in a cave in Morocco. Although in the first publication of this piece Georges Souville already established a connection of the pin to the so called “Cypriot” knot-headed pins of Central Europe an...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2014 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid |
| Repositorio: | Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/663023 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10486/663023 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Alfiler chipriota Punta Palmela Campaniforme Marruecos Península Ibérica Intercambio Objetos de prestigio Marfil Arqueología |
| Sumario: | The present article presents a review of a singular find of a copper pin together with Bell Beaker items in a cave in Morocco. Although in the first publication of this piece Georges Souville already established a connection of the pin to the so called “Cypriot” knot-headed pins of Central Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean, this piece never found the attention it deserved and never entered in the distribution maps of this type of pins. The recent publication of new metal analysis of the pin and the accompanying Palmela point even led to a rejection of this identification and its chalcolithic dating and the assumption of a Early Iron Age/Phoenician chronology. Here we review again the whole context and the findings and their potential analogies. Finally the identification as a “Cypriot” knot-headed pin will be affirmed and the finding is seen as part of the Late Chalcolithic exchange of ivory and other prestige-goods between the Near East, the Maghreb and the Iberian Peninsula |
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