Detailed investigation of the Alpha Building of Puig Morter in Son Ferragut on the island of Mallorca provided the opportunity to study not only a domestic setting dating to between c.700 and 500 BC, but also to build a picture of different social activities and gender relations during this period. This large volume presnts a description of the building itself before looking at the activities taking place within it, such as the slaughter, butchery and cooking of meat, the preparation of other foodstuffs, storage and domestic production of ceramics, cloth and personal items. Speculation is then made of the presence of two differentiated social groups who have practised shared and separate social practices, some of which may be determined by gender. The conclusion indicates that this remains work in progress. Spanish text; English summary.

In essence, this is a book about the female body. The Neolithic figurative representations examined here form part of what is traditionally called Levantine Rock Art or, more recently, Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin of the Iberian Peninsula. The region is understood to have occupied the whole of the Mediterranean Fringe, the coastal and pre-coastal regions of the Eastern Iberian Peninsula, from the foothills of the Pyrenees to the mountainous regions in the interior of the south-east of the Iberian Peninsula. The author's main interest is centred on recovering, documenting, and analyzing the greatest number of female representations in the Levantine panels. The aim was to explain them in relation to the social practices in which they were involved, based on the activities represented. (The surviving representations produced in this artistic style were declared an element of World Heritage by UNESCO in 1998.)