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Use of cinnabar in funerary practices in the Central Pyrenees. Analysis of pigments on bones from the prehistoric burial of the Cueva de la Sierracave in Campodarbe (Huesca, Spain)
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Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports; April 2023, Vol. 48 Issue: 1
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2352409X
Abstract
•The red pigment sprinkled in a burial in Campodarbe, dated 4400 ± 30 BP, was analyzed.•The chemical composition of pigment was unequivocally established as cinnabar.•This is the oldest documented occurrence of cinnabar in Aragón (Spain).•S isotope analysis points to an origin in NW Iberian Peninsula, ca. 500 km away.•The role of Ebro valley as an axis of communication in this period is corroborated.