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LIVING AND DOCUMENTED CULTURE · 02

Warriors advancing around the vase

The ceramics of Llíria and La Serreta show combats, processions and musicians.

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DECLARED VISUAL RECONSTRUCTION · AI-GENERATED IMAGE · TRACEKEEPERS

Generated reconstruction · Declared visual hypothesis

Declared visual reconstruction, created for museographic contextualisation; not a photograph of the original nor does it constitute documentary evidence.

Image of Warriors Advancing Around the Vessel
DECLARED VISUAL RECONSTRUCTION · AI-GENERATED IMAGE · TRACEKEEPERS

Generated reconstruction · Declared visual hypothesis

Declared visual reconstruction, created for museographic contextualisation; not a photograph of the original nor does it constitute documentary evidence.

History and context

They may evoke narratives or ceremonies, but do not prove an institutional Iberian theatre.

Evidence and interpretation

Synthesis based on National Archaeological Museum · Auletrix; Museum of Prehistory of Valencia · Iberian world; Museum of Jaén · El Pajarillo. The comparison serves to formulate questions, not to fill gaps in the record with certainties.

Catalogue facts

Civilisation or trajectory
Iberian peoples of the peninsula
Scope
Dance, rite and representation
Main area
Mediterranean façade and south of the Iberian peninsula, with communities, languages and trajectories different.

A closer look

About 1 min to read · 1 section. Further reading and sources · free access. Editorial review recorded: .

A Single Parade Allows Different Readings

The study by Helena Bonet and Isabel Izquierdo compares the scenes of Llíria without reducing them to a single ceremony. The combats accompanied by musicians have been interpreted as youth training, funerary contests, or even judicial duels. In another vessel, the dance floor, men and women appear holding hands and preceded by musicians; a marriage-related initiation has been proposed. These are readings of images, not ceremonies described by their participants. Comparing the vessels allows recognition of shared repertoires and preserves uncertainty about each occasion.

Location and territory

Physical world map with routes of human evolutionPresent-day world coastline from Natural Earth in an equirectangular projection. The overlaid markers let you explore each milestone.Map base: Natural Earth 1:110m · public domain · present-day reference coastline

REGIONAL AREA

Mediterranean façade and peninsular south; not all Iberia was IberianMediterranean fringe and southern peninsula; not all Iberia was Iberian. The footprint indicates the orientative centre of the area, not a boundary nor an exact point.

Sources and references

Consult the sources of this cultural synthesis

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