Las armas-trofeo en la cultura ibérica: pautas de identificación e interpretación

Abstract

The archaeometalllurgical study of some iron celtic style swords and a celtiberian dagger found in iberian residential nucleus from Catalonia (NE Spain) verifies that they were intentionally made useless in order to be shown, nailed on a stand. These items belong to levels from the 3rd and 2nd centuries B.C., located outdoors and indoors of ritual buildings, as well as in some storage-pits, often with animal offerings, human skulls pierced by nails and jaws. The association with cutheads shows that the closest cultural parallels are in the celtic world, specially between southern gal communities from the end of the Iron Age, although possible connections with greek spoils are also pointed out in this paper.