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Among other objectives, this collection of papers investigates the role that settlements surrounding necropolises have played in the evolution of megalithic and hypogean graves and their relationship to the development of collective burial ritual through consideration of collective burial ritual as a means of masking social differences. The intention here is to explore the relationship between collectivism and concealment in relation to other forms of non-funerary ritualism. Contents: 1) Links between megalithism and hypogeism in Western Mediterranean Europe: an approach (Jose Andres Afonso...

Through an analysis of burials and funerary practices in southern Iberia, Camara explores the wider issues of social, territorial, political and organisational change from the Neolithic through to the Bronze Age. A number of sites are investigated in southern and southeast Spain and this evidence is then used to interpret different types of funerary ritual, ideologies, the development of permanent settlement and hierarchies, and the use of megaliths in the south and as part of a much broader phenomenon. Spanish text, with short English summary.