Article ID: CBB001422584

Life and Death in the Neolithic Variscite Mines at Gavà (Barcelona, Spain) (2015)

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Mining has commonly been thought of as hard manual labour undertaken by the lower echelon of a hierarchical society, but was this always the case? Recent excavations of the variscite mines at Gavà have revealed burials contemporary with the peak of mining activity that represent a community of miners exploiting the subterranean resources for trade and manufacturing variscite beads with a nuanced symbolism. Skeletal evidence demonstrates the physicality of mining while grave goods reveal a community that worked collectively to mine, manufacture and trade goods, with miners themselves benefiting from the fruits of their labours.

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Authors & Contributors
Takeshi Sakade
Wilhelm Hannemann
Astrid Schmidt-Händel
Yuanzhi Li
Paul J. White
Georg Drechsler
Concepts
Excavations (archaeology)
Labor and laborers
Manufacturing
Mines and mining
Archaeology
Trade
Time Periods
Neolithic period
Ancient
20th century
Medieval
19th century
21st century
Places
United States
Germany
China
India
Brittany (France)
Moscow (Russia)
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