Contributions to the debate on space-functional organization of site III millennium ane de Valencina (Sevilla)

Abstract

The site of the third millennium a.n.e. of Valencina de la Concepción  in Sevilla has become in recent  years a benchmark for archaeological research on the recent prehistory due to the significant increase of excavations and research and scientific literature that has been generated. A major turning point came with the Congress to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the discovery of La Cueva de la Pastora held in 2011 which helped to unify a large part of the information available and open new debates about the complexity of the site in different fields of scientific knowledge. Its categorization as a political entity on a wide territory, the variability of the burials, the ability to grab prestige goods, spatial organization, among others are reasons recently revived debates. Therefore, we believe that discussion of the sectoral division of deposit, initiated by Prof. Oswaldo Arteaga and Prof. Rosario Cruz-Auñón in the 90s of last century, has great interest to understand the degree of social complexity and  the social relations of production established communities in the Valley of the Guadalquivir throughout the III millennium BC.