LIVING AND DOCUMENTED CULTURE · 04

Stone, Thread and Gesture

Sculptures, offerings and textiles allow us to know how they worked, dressed and practised their beliefs.

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Image of Stone, Thread and Gesture — **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

Not all figures are portraits nor all women represented were priestesses.

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: Visual and Material Arts
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: September 5, 2026.

Metal Preserved the Imprint of Vegetal Craftsmanship

At La Bastida de les Alcusses, lead droplets with impressions of braided esparto were recovered. The study of the Valencian collections of 2024 uses these impressions alongside charred remains to investigate vegetal objects that normally disappear. Craftsmanship is not reduced to what survives intact: a material can preserve the form of another. The impression documents contact during a metalworking process, but does not by itself identify the complete function of the braided object nor the person who made it.

Research · C. M. Martínez Varea, Y. Carrión Marco and J. Vives-Ferrándiz · Esparto Craftsmanship During the Iron Age, Levantine Prehistory Archive XXXV, 2024Access recorded: September 5, 2026.

Location and territory

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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