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The funerary issue concerning castrejo and celtiberos intertwines with the habitat in which they lived. In castrejo settlements, changes in the funerary pattern - from the urns inside the huts to a location near the family nucleus and later to the necropolis's differentiated space - are often credited exclusively to contact with the Romans, without further study of spatial distribution. In the case of the Celtiberian cemeteries, although there is a peculiar internal organization of the funerary space, variations occur that must be better examined. This is the case, for example, in the Numância necropolis, where the densification causes authors such as Lorrio to think of functional justifications for the damage of the weapons found in the cemetery: such an act would be due not only to the ritual of sacred destruction, but also the practical aspect of the burial space available. The search for the factors that generated the change in funerary patterns will thus be guided by both the cultural interrelationship between castrejo and Romans or Celtiberos and Romans (whose analysis will be centered on material documentation, seen as essential to detect the aspect memory) as well as the spatial organization of the burials of both peoples. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The object of this article is to discuss the presence of the Castro Culture and of Celtic people on the Iberian Peninsula. Currently there are two sides to this debate. On one hand, some consider the "Castro" people as one of the Celtic groups that inhabited this part of Europe, and see their peculiarity as a historically designed trait due to issues of national identity. On the other hand, there are archeologists that -- despite not ignoring entirely the usage of the Castro culture for the affirmation of national identity during the nineteenth century (particularly in Portugal) -- saw distinctive characteristics in the Northwest of Portugal and Spain which go beyond the use of the past for political reasons. We will examine these questions aiming to decide if there is a common Proto-Celtic substrate, and possible singularities in the Castro Culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]