TY - JOUR AU - Barroso Bermejo, R. AU - Martínez-Sevilla, F. AU - Rodríguez Barbero, M.Á. AU - Cambra-Moo, O. AU - Bueno-Ramírez, P. AU - Rodríguez-Malo, J.M.R. KW - Bell Beaker KW - bracers KW - children's burials KW - Iberia KW - object biography T1 - Reconstructing the Biography of Children's Stone Bracers in the Iberian Peninsula LA - eng PY - 2023/05/24/ SP - 124 EP - 146 T2 - European Journal of Archaeology SN - 1741-2722 VL - 26 IS - 2 PB - Cambridge University Press AB - Perforated stone plaques, known as bracers, are found across late prehistoric Europe and many of them have been recovered in Bell Beaker funerary contexts, usually associated with adult individuals. Experimental, technological, and use-wear studies have determined that the bracers were both utilitarian and symbolic objects. Very few are found in children's graves, but examples are known in the Iberian Peninsula, two of which are presented here. The analyses conducted on the two bracers, including archaeological contextualization, raw material identification, and technological and use-wear studies, allow the authors to reconstruct their respective biographies. Although these pieces were associated with young children, they had long lives before their final deposition in the graves. Use-wear marks on one of the bracers suggest that it was used in archery, despite its small size. DO - 10.1017/EAA.2022.39 UR - https://portalcientifico.uah.es/documentos/64609fb5c6d6be6c90fc7188 DP - Dialnet - Portal de la Investigación ER -