Bibliogr. en fin de contributions. Notes bibliogr.

This is the last volume of the Sidereum Ana trilogy, corresponding to the proceedings of the scientific meetings that were held in Mérida between 2006 and 2012. These conferences were consacrated to the Archaeology of the I Millennium B.C. along this river and its territory and this third installment focuses on the 8th – 6th centuries period touching the subject "The river Guadiana and Tartessos". The book contains 22 chapters dedicated to archaeological novelties in high, middle and low courses of the River both in Spain and Portugal. Synthesis chapters and detail ones on the excavations carried out in recent years concerning this period are presented. In this regard, highlight the discoveries in the area of Beja in Portugal, where a characteristic set of rural cemeteries are being excavated; the works of the mouth of the River, in the indigenous settlement of Castro Marim and in Ayamonte, where an important Phoenician site has been discovered; or the researchs in Huelva, corresponding to the agricultural outskirts of the Orientalizing city. Next to them, works of synthesis on the Upper and Middle Guadiana, or on some sites as Huelva; chapters on metallurgy along with an initial paper on the Tartesian Heptarchy and a final conclussions, complete this work which was attended by 50 Spanish and Portuguese researchers.
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