Isotopic evidence for mobility at largescale human aggregations in Copper Age Iberia: the mega-site of Marroquíes Díaz-Zorita Bonilla, Marta Beck, Jess Bocherens, Hervé Díaz-del-Río, Pedro Iberia Marroquíes Copper age Research was made possible by the University of Michigan, Museum of Jaén, the Briggite-Schlieben-Lange programme, the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad de España (HAR2013-47776-R), the National Science Foundation (BCS-1440017), the SFB 1070 ‘Ressourcenkulturen’ at Tübingen University and Proyectos conjuntos CSIC—Fundación Presidente de Rusia para la Investigación Fundamental (2010RU0086) and a Marie Sklodowska-Curie European Fellowship (746216). To view supplementary material for this article, please visit https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.33 Settlements incorporating large-scale human aggregations are a well-documented but poorly understood phenomenon across late prehistoric Europe. The authors’ research examines the origins and trajectory of such aggregations through isotope analysis of human skeletal remains from the mega-site of Marroquíes in Jaén, Spain. The results indicate that eight per cent of 115 sampled individuals are of non-local origin. These individuals received mortuary treatments indistinguishable from those of locals, suggesting their incorporation into pre-existing social networks in both life and death. This research contributes to our understanding of the extent and patterning of human mobility, which underlies the emergence of late prehistoric mega-sites in Europe. 2026-03-01T23:37:14Z 2026-03-01T23:37:14Z 2018-08-22 journal article Díaz-Zorita Bonilla M, Beck J, Bocherens H, Díaz-del-Río P. Isotopic evidence for mobility at large-scale human aggregations in Copper Age Iberia: the mega-site of Marroquíes. Antiquity. 2018;92(364):991-1007. doi:10.15184/aqy.2018.33 https://hdl.handle.net/10481/111772 10.15184/aqy.2018.33 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ open access Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Cambridge University Press