4500-2500 BC North-eastern Iberia

Middle Neolithic

After some initial phases where agriculture and herding was incipient and communities were small and scattered, peasant societies developed fully with larger settlements and a more complex social organization. This new phase is known as Middle Neolithic and begun in different moments depending on the processes that occurred throughout the world geography.

Between 4500 and 2500 BC, in northeastern Iberia, this period is identified generally by the existence of larger villages and characterized by a funerary ritual consisting to bury the dead in individual and, ocasionally, double pits with grave goods composed by highly processed objects or obtained through exchange networks. Often, these tombs have been found grouped together forming cemeteries close to the same places they inhabited.