First human representations of the Tartessian culture have been found!
They've found 5 reliefs of faces in the Casas del Turuñuelo archaeological site, likely dating to the 5th century BC.
It is the first time that figurative human representations have been found in a site of the Tartessian culture, which until today was thought to be aniconic, which means that we thought it doesn't represent divinities, only representing them through sacred stones and animal and vegetal motifs.
Two of them represent female faces, one is a warrior with a helmet, and the other is likely a male face, but archaeologists still have to analyze it. They're richly adorned with jewels whose style has been identified in Tartessian jewelry found in other Tartessian sites of southern Iberia such as Cancho Roano.
Archaeologists of the CSIC team who found it are celebrating this extraordinary find and will quickly start to work on what this means for what we knew about Tartessians.
La troballa s'ha fet en un jaciment d'Extremadura i suposa un canvi de paradigma en la interpretació de la cultura tartèssia
