Los puñales con empuñadura globular de frontón en la necrópolis de la IIª Edad del Hierro de La Hoya (Laguardia, Alava)

Abstract

Four examples of «frontón-hilt» daggers are presented here. They were found at the Necropolis of La Hoya (Laguardia, Alava), dated in the Second Iron Age. A typologic study of them, as well of their archeological context is the subject of this paper. They are contemporary, within very narrow limits, to other types of daggers, like the Miraveche-Monte Bernorio or tang-hilt ones and, furthermore, they appear at the same stratigraphical contexts. These examples represent a very important percentage of this type of weapons found at the Iberian Peninsula, and this drives us to question about the ethnical origin of the human group who made them.