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heraldry for the dead

Memory, Identity, and the

Engraved Stone Plaques of Neolithic Iberia

katina t. lillios

university of texas press

Austin

is book has been supported by an endowment dedicated to classics and

the ancient world and funded by the Areté Foundation; the Gladys Krieble

Delmas Foundation; the Dougherty Foundation; the James R. Dougherty, Jr.

Foundation; the Rachael and Ben Vaughan Foundation; and the National

Endowment for the Humanities. e endowment has also beneﬁ ted from gifts

by Mark and Jo Ann Finley, Lucy Shoe Meritt, the late Anne Byrd Nalle,

and other individual donors.

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First edition, 2008

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Lillios, Katina T., 1960–

Heraldry for the dead : memory, identity, and the engraved stone plaques

of neolithic Iberia / Katina T. Lillios. — 1st ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

isbn 978-0-292-71822-7 (cloth : alk. paper)

1. Neolithic period—Iberian Peninsula. 2. Plaques, plaquettes—Iberian Peninsula.

3. Burial—Iberian Peninsula. 4. Antiquities, Prehistoric—Iberian Peninsula.

5. Iberian Peninsula—Antiquities. I. Title.

gn . .i l 2008

936.6—dc22

2008017086