Within the framework of the research project “Approach to the first Neolithic communities from the north-east of the Iberian peninsula through their burial practices” our main goal is to get to know better the agricultural and farming societies who lived during the 5th and 4th millennia in this area. The archaeological context is unique due to the inhumation in single burials and occasionally next to another individual. In this paper we would like to show not only the new results of analysis and methodologies employed but the working strategy we have developed. Thus, there are two fundamental aspects: 1) the absolute dating is the main focus and 2) the collaboration with other researchers and laboratories need to be close (It is not our intention to ask for results to a laboratory, but to work with the people involved in the sampling since they know the advantages and disadvantages of each of the employed techniques). The first results have already given information about the timing of these funerary practices, the morphology of the burials, the use of the perishable material, the diet and the degree of mobility of the populations, the kinship as well as the diary activities. The ongoing analysis will offer us insights of multiple views of those first Neolithic groups through the analysis of the individuals.

Resumen del trabajo presentado al "XVII World UISPP Congress" celebrado en Burgos (España) del 1 al 7 de septiembre de 2014.-- et al.

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