Consuelo Mata Parreño (Universitat de Vamència) is a Spanish

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who specialises in Iberian material culture. She is currently the head teacher of the Department of Archaeology at the

University of Valencia The University of Valencia ( ca-valencia, Universitat de València ; also known as UV) is a public research university located in the city of Valencia, Spain. It is one of the oldest surviving universities in Spain, and the oldest in the Vale ...

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Mata, along with Helena Bonet Rosado and Joan Bernabeu Auban, published early work on the organisation of Iberian polities in the

Valencian Community The Valencian Community ( ca-valencia, Comunitat Valenciana, es, Comunidad Valenciana) is an autonomous community of Spain. It is the fourth most populous Spanish autonomous community after Andalusia, Catalonia and the Community of Madrid with ...

, arguing for hierarchical relationships between

oppida An ''oppidum'' (plural ''oppida'') is a large fortified Iron Age settlement or town. ''Oppida'' are primarily associated with the Celtic late La Tène culture, emerging during the 2nd and 1st centuries BC, spread across Europe, stretchi ...

in region. Mata and Bonet also published a typology of Iberian fine (class A) and coarse (class B)

pottery Pottery is the process and the products of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other ceramic materials, which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard and durable form. Major types include earthenware, stoneware and por ...

, which is widely used by Iberian archaeologists. Mata led

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at the Iberian site of

Kelin Kelin was an ancient Iberian city located on the hill of Los Villares ( Caudete de las Fuentes, Valencia). The site was inhabited from the Proto-Iberian period (7th century BC) to the Late Iberian period (2nd to 1st centuries BC). The site was ...

, on the outskirts of modern Caudete de las Fuentes, and

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of the surrounding

Requena-Utiel La Plana de Utiel-Requena is a ''comarca'' currently in the province of Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain. Historically, the ''comarca'' was part of Castile and formed part of the province of Cuenca in the 1833 provincial division of Javier ...

region. The site of Kelin continues to be presented through public education events, particular 'open door' days. Mata and Bonet led the excavation of

Puntal dels Llops Puntal dels Llops is a small Iberian hilltop fort located near the modern town of Olocau, in Valencia province. It overlies an earlier Bronze Age site. Its original name in Iberian is unknown. It was built in the late fifth or early fourth cent ...

, a small Iberian hilltop fort near modern Olocau. In recent years, Mata and colleagues have published on the actual and symbolic uses of plant and animal products in Iberian life. This project has created online databases of the many types of evidence for these uses.

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Dialnet
*Iberian flora and fauna
Flora y fauna ibérica
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mata Parreno, Consuelo 1954 births Living people 20th-century Spanish archaeologists Academic staff of the University of Valencia Spanish women archaeologists 21st-century Spanish archaeologists

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