Life and Death of the Macrolithic Tools from the Third-millennium cal. <scp>bc</scp> Necropolis of La Orden-Seminario in Southwest Spain

Macrolithic tools are linked to daily activities and, fundamentally, settlements, hence their importance for the study of Late Prehistoric societies. However, these objects also associated with funerary contexts, but have not often been analysed holistically. This paper studies an assemblage macrolithic elements from three collective tombs third millennium cal. bc at site La Orden-Seminario (Huelva, Spain), a theoretical and methodological perspective based on biography object. Our analysis focuses typology, raw materials, technology, function burial context. The results show that can be domestic such as grinding cereals processing plant well production maintenance used in activities. display long biographies use some cases, we documented intentional breakage deposition tombs. patterns contexts reflect social practices related ritual symbolic behaviours surrounding death relationship everyday objects.