FIG. 10 in Knucklebones and other animal deposits in the "Cruz del Negro" necropolis: Possible Phoenician funerary rituals in SW Spain?

FIG. 10. — Location of the archaeological sites with accumulations of knucklebones in the Mediterranean Basin. The oldest are located in the Near East (2000 – 1600 BC), and the oldest necropolis in the Iberian Peninsula where these kinds of offerings have been found is "Cruz del Negro" (8th Century BC). The latest record located dates from the 2nd Century AD in the "Munigua" archaeological site in southern Spain. Symbols: black circles: Bronze Age; dark grey circles: 8th-7th B.C.; light grey circles: 6th-1st B.C.; white circles: 1st-2nd A.C. Maps from d-maps.com (copyright Daniel Daley).