La defensa de la comunidad: sobre las funciones emblemáticas de las murallas protohistóricas en la península Ibérica

Abstract

Architecture of a defensive nature built by any society to control and protect its settlements has been —and still is— the maximum expression of that community’s technical, ideological and socio-economic capacities. Therefore, the fundamental values materialized in defensive structures should express to a high degree the singularities and, at the same time, shared elements among these communities. This work puts forward a new methodological approach for analysis of these values, using the Bronze and Iron Age communities in Iberica as a case study.