General and local spatial trends in Galician megalithic landscapes (North-Western Iberian Peninsula) (original) (raw)

Having completed the »corpus« of the Galician megalithic complex using objective and scientific viable data obtained through intensive fieldwork during two decades, we now have the possibility to study it as a whole. As such, an overall view of the megalithic complex of Galicia is presented here, based on the most complete dataset, which currently has 3,305 sites. Starting from the contextualisation of the phenomenon provided by previous research, a general approach to studying the distribution of sites is suggested here, devoting special attention to location patterning in Costa da Morte, one of the areas with the greatest concentration of mounds in the NW of the Iberian peninsula. The results point out that there is a clear variability in the distribution of sites, with the existence of preferences on the geographic site’s location, which may indicate a territorial pattern of these past societies.