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[ES]: En este trabajo, y desde una perspectiva eminentemente crítica, se realiza una revisión de las principales hipótesis que se han propuesto para interpretar el significado de los restos arqueológicos del yacimiento de Cancho Roano, desde su descubrimiento en 1978 hasta nuestros días. Todas ellas presentan una serie de lugares comunes al plantear la realización de grandes ceremonias rituales en las que se describen hecatombes, destrucciones intencionadas, sacrificios, etc. Todas ellas parecen debidas a lecturas muy subjetivas del registro en las que apenas se tienen en cuenta los procesos tafonómicos que generaron el palimpsesto. Sin embargo, todas ellas se inscriben de manera decidida en los modelos explicativos generales del yacimiento y de su significado histórico y cultural.
[EN]: This paper approaches a critical revision of the main theories which have been suggested for interpreting the archaeological remains found in the Iron Age site of Cancho Roano (Extremadura, Spain), since its discovery in 1978 to nowadays. All of them present some very similar topics and very alike commonplaces suggesting ritual ceremonies such holocausts, intentioned destructions and human or animal sacrifices. In addition, they all seem to be product of a very subjective interpretation of the archaeological evidence where the taphonomic processes are scarcely considered. However, all of them are strongly related with the cultural and historical patterns in which they are inscribed.
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Tafonomía, Iron Age, Edad del Hierro, Taphonomy, Cancho Roano, Iberia, Península Ibérica, Ritual
Tafonomía, Iron Age, Edad del Hierro, Taphonomy, Cancho Roano, Iberia, Península Ibérica, Ritual
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