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Funeral apparel of the Age of Iron Castro Celtic of El Raso	The culture of the "verracos". Though the historians say to us that the first known settlers were the eburones, the most ancient archaeological remains belong perhaps - it is for determining the antiquity of Candeleda's cave paintings - to another village, the vettones of which in the Low Tiétar, though there are tracks for the whole region, only the hopscotch has been excavated in el Castro Celta de El Raso, close to the coat in which the paintings have appeared. The civilization of this people of Celtic origin, for the accomplishment of sculptures zoomorphic that represent bulls, pork or jabalíes, has received the label of culture of the hogs (verracos). The vettones are a Central European people that settles itself in the north hillsides of the Central System about the beginning of the first millennium and in VIIth century B.C. they are pushed by the vacceos to occupy also another part of the mountain chain assimilating the eburones who were living the whole valley of the Tiétar. The area occupied by the vettones is going to spread over the current province of Avila, the south of that of Salamanca and an important part of that of Cáceres. They will have a totally independent stage until the Roman power is imposed after the wars that diverse consuls support against an alliance formed for Lusitanian and Celt Iberian; the most notable episodes of these wars (154 - 133 B.C.) turn around Viriato's personality. For some archeologist the final defeat of this commander very well could happen in the proximities wherefrom El Raso. Julio César, when he is nominated a governor of the Subsequent Roman Spain, arranges the demolition of the walls, the abandon of the strengthened settlements and the movement of his inhabitants to accessions without defensive bastions with what there begins the slow assimilation of some aspects of the Roman culture. Close to the interest to carve statues zoomorphic of hogs, it is necessary to indicate for a start his accession in "castros", enclosures walled in high zones, of difficult access or with some steep part that should facilitate the defense.