The Vetones cremated their dead. He was a Celtic ritual whose origins can be found in the heart of Europe, culture Umas Fields. The most powerful warriors took to the grave her trousseau, burned at the stake, over all, after being in a stone altar, according to Roman historians, waiting for psychopomps birds will take their secrets to another life.
Archaeological excavations have helped to unravel some unknowns of life and customs of the vetones. Castro is the case of the Mesa de Miranda (Chamartin de la Sierra, Ávila). Discovered by Antonio Miller in 1930, was excavated by him along with Juan Cabral, who was also responsible for another great work in this field excavations in the camp and the cemetery of La Cogotas (Cardeñosa, Avila). The large cemetery of La Mesa de Miranda, known as "the den" with the Las Cogotas have provided rich data on vetones, as the pyramid structure of villages and the importance of warriors and craftsmen in the social ladder. However, the evidence that the boars are related funerary elements not based on vetones necropolis, but the specimens found in Avila, from a Roman cemetery near the Romanesque basilica of San Vicente, in front of the wall.
references about vetones rituals are evident by the existence of outdoor shrines, carved into the rock of the land. The case of pre-Roman altar found in San Mamede (Villardiegua de la Ribera, Zamora), the Portuguese Panóias (Vila Real) or the sacrificial altar of chaste Ulaca (Solosancho, Avila), The latter is best known for his situation, the larger core of the whole area inhabited by the vetones, and ported the elements surrounding it. The rock altar is carved into the rock of the land and is surrounded by a space "sacred" or Nemeton. It consists of a surface with two pairs of carved stairs leading to a platform with several cavities communicated itself. Its sanctity has been determined by parallels with the altar found in Panóias Castro, containing Roman inscriptions referring to animal and human sacrifices in the field of culture and Celtic gods. Is thought to be a cult related to the bull or the Moon, by its location in one of the highest in oppidum. The Roman historian Strabo in his writings alluded to beliefs regarding the full moon in this whole region. Archaeologist Juan Cabré also highlighted his exalted heliolatría due to a ceramics found in Ciudad Rodrigo (Salamanca) and weapons of Castro in Las Cogotas sun motif.
For other cults of astral significance, the archaeologist F. Fabian says bowing stones denote a hierarchical differentiation of areas of the necropolis of the den, are associated with a celestial constellation.
Archaeological excavations have helped to unravel some unknowns of life and customs of the vetones. Castro is the case of the Mesa de Miranda (Chamartin de la Sierra, Ávila). Discovered by Antonio Miller in 1930, was excavated by him along with Juan Cabral, who was also responsible for another great work in this field excavations in the camp and the cemetery of La Cogotas (Cardeñosa, Avila). The large cemetery of La Mesa de Miranda, known as "the den" with the Las Cogotas have provided rich data on vetones, as the pyramid structure of villages and the importance of warriors and craftsmen in the social ladder. However, the evidence that the boars are related funerary elements not based on vetones necropolis, but the specimens found in Avila, from a Roman cemetery near the Romanesque basilica of San Vicente, in front of the wall.
references about vetones rituals are evident by the existence of outdoor shrines, carved into the rock of the land. The case of pre-Roman altar found in San Mamede (Villardiegua de la Ribera, Zamora), the Portuguese Panóias (Vila Real) or the sacrificial altar of chaste Ulaca (Solosancho, Avila), The latter is best known for his situation, the larger core of the whole area inhabited by the vetones, and ported the elements surrounding it. The rock altar is carved into the rock of the land and is surrounded by a space "sacred" or Nemeton. It consists of a surface with two pairs of carved stairs leading to a platform with several cavities communicated itself. Its sanctity has been determined by parallels with the altar found in Panóias Castro, containing Roman inscriptions referring to animal and human sacrifices in the field of culture and Celtic gods. Is thought to be a cult related to the bull or the Moon, by its location in one of the highest in oppidum. The Roman historian Strabo in his writings alluded to beliefs regarding the full moon in this whole region. Archaeologist Juan Cabré also highlighted his exalted heliolatría due to a ceramics found in Ciudad Rodrigo (Salamanca) and weapons of Castro in Las Cogotas sun motif.
For other cults of astral significance, the archaeologist F. Fabian says bowing stones denote a hierarchical differentiation of areas of the necropolis of the den, are associated with a celestial constellation.
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