FEMALE ELITES AND FUNERARY SYSTEMS OF REPRESENTATION IN THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD OF THE VACCEO AREA: (IRRESOLVABLE) DISCORDANCES BETWEEN THE GRAVE GOODS AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL DETERMINATIONS
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The funerary record of the necropolis of Las Ruedas in Pintia allows an approach to the symbolic world of death among the vaccean, with the representation of "social people" through a series of objects of a diverse nature deposited in their tombs that express the condition of age, sex, position, affections, etc. Until anthropological studies entered the scene, weapons were traditionally associated with men's trousseaus and ornaments or textile elements with women's. Now we know that some "warrior" trousseaus could correspond to women, which does not authorize inverting the terms. The excesses of some anthropological studies call for a review of the results, whose nature can sometimes be fragile and questionable. That is what happens with the record of the Valladolid cemetery, which has been the subject of a new anthropological study entirely discordant with the one carried out in the eighties of the last century.