Nuevos datos sobre la Edad del Hierro en Alto Duero: El castro de El Pico (Cabrejas del Pinar, Soria)

Abstract

This work presents data collected in an archaeological survey from the hill-fort of El Pico (Cabrejas del Pinar, Soria). The aim of the investigation was to assess the preserved archeological record and to provide a well-defined chrono-cultural determination to the site, which tradition-ally has been related to the "Sorian Hillforts Culture" of the Early Iron Age. The documented evidence shows a discrepancy between archaeological data and absolute dates. That circumstance allows to us discuss and propose a new chrono-cultural definition to El Pico, that actually it is linked with that archaeological group of "Ancient Celtiberic" (7th-5th centuries b. C.). The data suggest new lines of analysis in a zone where there were two archaeological groups (the Sorian Hillforts and Ancient Celtiberian archaeological sites) tied to a poorly defined historical process of the emergence of state societies.