The tempo of the Iberian megalithic rituals in the European context: The cemetery of Panoría

Our ability to build precise narratives regarding megalithic societies largely depends on the chronology of multi-ritual events that usually shaped these complex sites. The cemetery Panoría offers an excellent opportunity for exploring ritual complexity in Iberia through radiocarbon chronology, as four nine recently excavated dolmens are remarkably well preserved. For this purpose, seventy-three dates were obtained and analysed within a Bayesian framework. resulting refined has led us three main conclusions: i) all tombs, second half 4th millennium cal BC was intensive but brief period funerary depositions, probably over six generations; ii) after long hiatus, most reused 25th 21st centuries during even shorter periods, spanning just few decades approximately one (iii) rituals had ended century, memory revived Late Antiquity. These short, punctuated periods use highly consistent with those seen growing number European monuments. From Britain Iberia, pattern short spans is dramatically changing our perception social political roles