Aristócratas iberos del surpríncipes de trigo y vino

Abstract

This work aims to define the aristocratic strategy of the princes of southern Iberian Peninsula. Firstly, it defines the types of hoarding and the relationship with the consolidation of the nuclear family. Secondly, it pays attention to the struc- ture of the lineage and its definition from clients and ancestors. The first issue in based on the excavation of the cemetery of Piquía (Arjona, Jaén) with the anachronistic presence of Attic kraters from the 4th cent. BC in a princely type burial dating from the 1st cent. BC. To characterize the lineage, a new spatial reading has been done, considering the circulation of certain types of gifts in the necropolis of Cerro del Santuario (Baza, Granada). In this sense, Greek pottery, weapons and certain types of ceramics such as kalathos and long neck vessels seem to demarcate the location of the tombs of clients and relatives. One of the most interesting points of this analysis is that the clientele is shown as a formula of dependence between families. Thus, in case of conflict of power within the lineage, every aristocratic family drags its own clientele passing over the family bonding with the lineage.