Outside the cities. A late antique funerary finding from Spanish Pyrenees
Rafael Domingo|Pilar Diarte Blasco|Vanessa Villalba-Mouco|Marta Alcolea|José Luis Villarroel|José Antonio Cuchí|Lourdes Montes
We present a very intriguing set of finds coming from Tragaluz Norte, one the most inaccessible rock shelters in Vero canyon, which runs north to south through Sierra de Guara, Huesca province (north-east Spain). There, skeleton 9-years-old child with his toy wooden bow as well other elements (pieces wood, fabric and pottery, stone wall) were found. The whole ensemble belongs single moment second half 4th century CE. hypothesize that this was part group rural laborers who died accidentally buried there. As an explanation for their presence such place we think they could be gathering honey man-made cane mud honeycombs -locally called arnas-, task documented area until recent times.
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports