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Revealing Iberian woodcraft: conserved wooden artefacts from south-east Spain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Yolanda Carrión  and
Pablo Rosser
Yolanda Carrión
Affiliation:
Centro de Investigaciones sobre Desertificación (CIDE), CSIC, UVEG, GV, Camí de la Marjal s/n, 46470 Albal, Valencia, Spain (Email: Yolanda.carrion@uv.es)
Pablo Rosser
Affiliation:
Departamento de Patrimonio Cultural de Alicante (COPHIAM), Ayuntamiento de Alicante, Plaza Quijano 2, 03002 Alicante, Spain (Email: pablo.rosser@alicante-ayto.es)
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Abstract

Six wells at Tossal de les Basses in Spain captured a large assemblage of Iberian woodworking debris. The authors' analysis distinguishes a wide variety of boxes, handles, staves, pegs and joinery made in different and appropriate types of wood, some – like cypress – imported from some distance away. We have here a glimpse of a sophisticated and little known industry of the fourth century BC.

Keywords

IberiaSpainIron Agewoodworkjoinerycommodities
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Antiquity , Volume 84 , Issue 325 , September 2010 , pp. 747 - 764
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 2010

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