Rituales de comensalidad en el Bronce Final de la Iberia atlántica: artefactos metálicos, contextos e interpretación

At the beginning of the Late Bronze Age a set of metallic objects (cauldrons, flesh-hooks and, a little later, rotary spits) appeared on the Atlantic façade. They were associated with ritual feasts in which meat consumption seems to have played an important part.

Large numbers of these objects are found in the territory of present-day Portugal and Galicia and we use these as a common thread in our paper to study the Late Bronze Age feasting rituals of that area. We review the available evidence and consider its spread, characteristics and contexts, as well as its social role within the framework of the Late Bronze Age communities.

Atlantic. Meat consumption. Social inequality. Metallurgy. Cauldrons. Flesh-hooks. Rotary spits.