The Visigothic Kingdom – A Kingdom without Visigoths?: The Debate on the Ethnic Interpretation of the Early Medieval Cemeteries on the Iberian Peninsula

For a long time, a group of necropolises have played a prominent role in the archaeology of the Visigoth period in the Iberian Peninsula, which – although their interpretation is controversial – are referred to as Visigothic cemeteries. Alternative names, such as Duraton-Madrona type, Castilian cemeteries or necropolis comunitarios have found no consensus. Visigothic cemeteries are large, densely populated burial grounds with a high percentage of furnished tombs (inhumations habillées), created in the central Meseta in the last quarter of the fifth century ad, their grave goods mainly consisting of personal adornment, including artefacts that derive from the Danube and