Montbolo culture

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Montbolo culture
Geographical range Girona, Barcelona, Pyrénées-Orientales
Period Neolithic
Datesc.4700–3800 BC
Type site Montbolo (Pyrénées-Orientales, France)
Preceded by Cardial culture
Followed by Sepulcres de fossa culture
Defined byJean Guilaine

The Montobolo culture was a postcardial[ clarification needed ] culture which extended over the départament of Pyrénees-Orientales and the provinces of Girona and Barcelona in eastern Catalonia between 4700 aC and 3800 aC. [1] [2]

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The Montobolo style received epicardial influences (as the corded decoration), and from the Chasseen culture, from which it would have taken incised decorations and tubular handles; characteristic of the Montobolo ceramics are polished pots without decoration, tubiforme handles, and the "moustache" motif. [3]

Some villages or dwellings are known like that of Plansallosa-II (Vall de Llierca), Vinya del Regalat (Castellar del Vallès), (Pau), La Dou (Vall d'en Bas), etc. Also caves were used as inhabiting places or storehouses: Can Sadurní (Begues), Montou (Corbera de les Cabanes), Les Grioteres (Vilanova de Sau)...

This kind of ceramics were found in collective inhumations inside caves, changing so the cardial paradigm with individual inhumations: La Balma (Montboló), Puig de Nou I (Albanyà), El Toll (Moià), L’Avellaner (Les Planes d’Hòstoles), El Pasteral (La Cellera de Ter), Mariver de Martís (Esponellà), La Cauna (Bellestar de la Frontera), La Guineu (Font-Rubí), La Font del Molinot (Pontons), etc.

The Montobolo facies is linked also with the first megalithic monuments (as before there was not any tradition erecting funerary places with stones): [4] Camp del Ginebre (Caramany), Tavertet (cists inside a rocky barrow), Vilanera (L'Escala), [5] and the buried cist of La Bassa (La Bisbal de l'Empordà).

Neolithic cist with tumulus near Sant Corneli church, Tavertet (Barcelona) Cista neolitica amb tumul de St. Corneli, Tavertet (Osona).jpg
Neolithic cist with tumulus near Sant Corneli church, Tavertet (Barcelona)

Geographic definition

Its area extended over the départament of Pyrénees-Orientales and the provinces of Girona and Barcelona in eastern Catalonia. The northern limit was with the Chasséen culture, the southern limit was less defined as between the Gaià and Llobregat rivers it overlapped with the ceramic tradition known as Molinot. To the west (central Catalonia), it is difficult to assign a limit with the Juberrian (extended over the Pyrenean regions of Cerdanya, Alt Urgell, Andorra, Foix and Couserans). [6]

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