Provenance of the javelins from the Dolmen de la Pastora (Valencina de la Concepcion, Sevilla, Spain)

In this article, along with an updated bibliographical revision, a new archaeometric approach to La Pastora javelin tip type is presented. New results of XRF and Lead Isotopes analyses of metal objects of this type from the Dolmen de la Pastora (Valencina de la Concepcion, Sevilla, Spain) and the site of La Pijotilla (Badajoz, Spain) are included, incorporating data from Outeiro de Sao Bernardo (Moura, Portugal). The evidence related with the interpretation of the archaeological context of these three sites allow to propose a date for these javelins that would stand in the centuries of transition between the 3rd and 2nd millennium BC. The confrontation of compositional and isotopic data from the javelin tips with other metallic elements of the region and with the isotopically characterized mineralization in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula, in addition to mineralizations and metals of the eastern Mediterranean, support their 'local' production in the peninsular southwest, although with regional typological variations and from diversified mineral sources.