Outside the cities. A late antique funerary finding from Spanish Pyrenees

We present a very intriguing set of finds coming from Tragaluz Norte, one of the most inaccessible rock shelters in the Vero canyon, which runs north to south through the Sierra de Guara, in the Huesca province (north-east Spain). There, a skeleton from a 9-years-old child with his toy wooden bow as well as other elements (pieces of wood, fabric and pottery, and a stone wall) were found. The whole ensemble belongs to a single moment in the second half of the 4th century CE. We hypothesize that this child was part of a group of rural laborers who died accidentally and was buried there. As an explanation for their presence in such an inaccessible place we think that they could be gathering honey from man-made cane and mud honeycombs -locally called arnas-, a task documented in the area until recent times.