Dentro y fuera de las tumbas campaniformes en Camino de las Yeseras: ¿una segunda vida para los muertos?

Complete or fragmented human remains usually are well recognized at funerary contexts, but it does not happen with those isolated bones mixed with faunal remains and other materials. Their identification out of graves is a research line that not always has deserved attention due to archaeozoological analysis are frequently done after other analysis materials, and this circumstance usually prevent appropriate identification of their bones and teeth. However, these human remains not recognized during field works can provide important information to approach us to the complex chalcolithic symbolic world where an empiric support is fundamental. The present paper is based fundamentally on a selection of these types of anthropological remains, mainly identified and selected from the faunal studies, recovered during field works at “Camino de las Yeseras” site since 2003 campaign. A brief discussion about skeletal representativity inside Bell Beaker tombs is presented, because they mainly show movements and transfers of selected bones beside their association with other faunal remains in pits, huts and ditches. In many cases in an interesting association with human mandibles and other dog remains are documented.