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The macroscopic and microscopic analyses of teeth from the Castellón Alto individuals belonging to El Argar culture (Southeastern Iberia), dated from Bronze Age, were carried out to identify non-alimentary uses of teeth and the tasks... more
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      PaleopathologyBronze Age Europe (Archaeology)Argar CultureBioarchaeology, Osteology, Paleopathology
LA SOCIEDAD DE EL ARGAR COMO ESTADO. ALGUNOS ELEMENTOS DE UN DEBATE. Carlos Velasco Felipe, Eva Celdrán. DESCUBRIMIENTOS DE ARTE RUPESTRE EN CARAVACA Y MORATALLA. Pedro Lucas Salcedo. LA EXPOSICIÓN PERMANENTE DE COIMBRA DEL... more
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      HistoryPrehistoric ArchaeologyArt HistoryCultural Heritage
Abstract This paper focuses on the recent research carried out at the Argaric site of Cerro de San Cristóbal, a small settlement situated in the Vega de Granada. From an habitational point of view, this site stands out as a... more
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      ArchaeologyBronze Age Europe (Archaeology)ArchaeometallurgyEarly Bronze Age (Archaeology)
Toda sociedad se define mediante la organización concreta de sus fuerzas de producción. Con El Argar surge en la Península Ibérica un sistema económico completamente nuevo, en el que la distancia entre productores y consumidores aumenta y... more
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      Mediterranean prehistoryBronze Age Europe (Archaeology)PrehistoryPrehistoric Archeology
This research tries to make an overview of culture The Argar from planning point of view. To perform this rapprochement has made a detailed study of the pattern of settlement, visualizing the structure of the towns, defense systems and... more
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      Argar CultureCultura argáricaEl Argar CultureEl Argar
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      Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology)Bronze Age (Archaeology)Edad Del BronceArgar Culture
This work aims to synthesize the available data on the social hierarchy in the Argaric culture. This data come from four main sources: 1) the internal organization of the villages, the presence of public buildings in them, and differences... more
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      Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology)Social ArchaeologyArgar Culture
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      Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology)Argar Culture
Las pruebas genéticas recién publicadas en la Revista Sciencie confirman la hipótesis del equipo de la 'Revista Argárica' de que entre los fundadores del Argar, además de los ya más que esperados esteparios, hubo gente procedente de las... more
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      ArchaeogeneticsCanaanite LanguagesEgypt and CanaanPalaeogenetics
Análsis de las nuevas perspectivas en el estudio de los procesos de complejidad social de la Edad del Bronce del sureste de la Península Ibérica.
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      Edad Del BronceArgar CultureEl Argar
La Almoloya es uno de los yacimientos arqueológicos más importantes de la sociedad de “El Argar”, que habitó el sureste de la península Ibérica a inicios de la Edad del Bronce (entre 2200 y 1550 antes de nuestra era). Desde los trabajos... more
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      Mediterranean prehistoryState FormationHistory of ElitesIberian Prehistory (Archaeology)
Este es un artículo divulgativo y de reflexión histórica. Se revisa la cultura de El Argar (2300/1500 aC), de la Edad del Bronce. Es la primera sociedad de Europa Occidental que entró en la vía del individualismo, no obstante, y... more
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      Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology)Edad Del BronceArgar CultureCultura argárica
The only Argaric halberd of the Meseta was recovered in the motilla of El Retamar in 2019. This find represents the first specialized weapon of the Motilla Culture. The find was retrieved from a non-funerary context (sondage A) in... more
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      Bell Beakers (Archaeology)Early Bronze Age (Archaeology)Argar CultureLead Isotope Analysis
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      Prehistoric ArchaeologyBronze Age Europe (Archaeology)Bronze Age ArchaeologyBronze Age (Archaeology)
Más allá de las evidentes semejanzas formales que presentan los registros funerarios de la Meseta y del Bronce Argárico, subyacen una serie de diferencias que en muchas ocasiones no han sido debidamente reconocidas. En este estudio se... more
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      Death and Burial (Archaeology)Edad Del BronceArgar CultureArchaeology of death and burial
El trabajo que el lector tiene entre manos versa sobre el debate dado durante las últimas décadas de investigación sobre la Precolonización fenicia en la Península Ibérica. Para comenzar, se realiza una síntesis sobre la situación en el... more
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      ProtohistoryProtohistoric Iberian PeninsulaNuragic ArchaeologySardinian Nuragic
La aparición y desarrollo de la metalurgia y el papel que desempeña en los procesos de intensificación de la complejidad social ha sido objeto de múltiples debates historiográficos en la literatura arqueológica de las últimas décadas.... more
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      Prehistoric ArchaeologyMediterranean prehistoryBronze Age Europe (Archaeology)Prehistory
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      ArchaeologyPrehistoric ArchaeologyCultural HeritageMediterranean prehistory
La cultura de El Argar es habitualmente presentada como una formación estatal en la que varias comunidades ejercieron un control social, económico y político sobre amplios territorios. Sin embargo esta configuración geo-política de las... more
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      Prehistoric ArchaeologyMediterranean prehistoryBronze Age Europe (Archaeology)Iberian Prehistory (Archaeology)
The recent discovery of an exceptionally rich grave at La Almoloya in south-eastern Spain illuminates the political context of Early Bronze Age El Argar society. The quantity, variety and opulence of the grave goods emphasise the... more
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      Ancient HistoryArchaeologyArtBronze Age Europe (Archaeology)
The recent discovery of an exceptionally rich grave at La Almoloya in south-eastern Spain illuminates the political context of Early Bronze Age El Argar society. The quantity, variety and opulence of the grave goods emphasise the... more
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      ArchaeologyBronze Age Europe (Archaeology)Bronze Age ArchaeologyWomen Leadership
The “Bastida Project” has been led by an interdisciplinary team of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona since 2008. La Bastida, the archaeological site after which it is named, has a long research history that has made it one of the... more
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      Prehistoric ArchaeologyFortified Settlements (Archaeology)FortificationsEarly Bronze Age
After more than a century of research, an enormous body of scientific literature in the field of El Argar studies has been generated, comprising some 700 bibliographic items. No fully-updated synthesis of the literature is available at... more
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      Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology)Iberian Prehistory (Archaeology)Bronze Age (Archaeology)Early Bronze Age (Archaeology)
The use of silver in south-eastern Iberia during the Bronze Age (c. 225o–145o cal BC) is conspicuous in the so-called El Argar Culture. Trace elements detected in the compositional analyses of the objects coupled with the absence of... more
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      Prehistoric ArchaeologyArchaeometryIberian Prehistory (Archaeology)Archaeometallurgy
Se presenta la aportación del registro arqueometalúrgico del poblado argárico de Peñalosa (Baños de la Encina, Jaén) al debate establecido en torno al papel que representa la minería y la metalurgia del cobre en las sociedades de la... more
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      Prehistoric ArchaeologyMediterranean prehistoryBronze Age Europe (Archaeology)Prehistory
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      Late Antique and Byzantine HistoryLate Antique and Byzantine StudiesLanguages and LinguisticsPottery (Archaeology)
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      Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology)Bronze Age (Archaeology)Argar Culture
Chemical and mineralogical analysis on a short sample of ceramic vessels of Peñalosa (Baños de la Encina, Jaén) VI and X houses have shown technological differences between items made to be included in the highest social level graves and... more
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      Pottery (Archaeology)Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology)ArchaeometryArgar Culture
Los estigmas osteológicos del ejercicio de la violencia con arma cortante en contextos argáricos son escasos. La intervención arqueológica realizada en 2011 en el yacimiento de El Morrón (Moratalla, Murcia), en los límites de la sociedad... more
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      ViolenceOsteoarchaeologyBronze Age (Archaeology)Prehistory
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      Prehistoric ArchaeologySettlement PatternsBronze Age Europe (Archaeology)Bronze Age Archaeology
Co-Direction of the documentary-film "In Their Hands - Reshaping pottery of the European Bronze Age" With the support of the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union CREATIVE EUROPE In the framework of the Crafting Europe in... more
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      Experimental ArchaeologyPottery (Archaeology)Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology)Bronze Age (Archaeology)
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      ArchaeologyPrehistoric ArchaeologyStable Isotope AnalysisArchaeometry
The emerging Bronze Age (BA) of southeastern Iberia saw marked social changes. Late Copper Age (CA) settlements were abandoned in favor of hilltop sites, and collective graves were largely replaced by single or double burials with often... more
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      Prehistoric ArchaeologyGenomicsComparative GenomicsAncient DNA (Archaeology)
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      Prehistoric ArchaeologyMediterranean prehistoryBronze Age Europe (Archaeology)Bronze Age Archaeology
An ivory workshop in the Bronze Age site of Fuente Álamo was located with bracelets, pearls, a comb and also raw and waste materials. Furthermore other sites with ivory studies are discussed and the use and importation of a great variety... more
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      Prehistoric ArchaeologyArgar CultureIvory and bone technologyIvory
https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/core-research/collaborative-research-centers/sfb-1070/publications/book-series-ressourcenkulturen/ This paper will analyse the relationships between the two societies located on either side of the... more
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      ArchaeologyArchaeological Method & TheoryBronze Age Europe (Archaeology)Archaeological Theory
This article is a summary of my PhD thesis on pottery manufacture and social practice at the Argaric Bronze Age (SE Iberian Peninsula, 2200-1500 cal BC)
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      ArchaeologyGender StudiesAnthropologyTechnology
According to Childe, the Bronze Age in Europe is thought to be the first 'golden age' in European history. The development of metallurgy, clearly associated with the production of weapons, and the expansion of exchange networks covering... more
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      Textile ArchaeologySocial ArchaeologyBronze Age (Archaeology)Textile Production
The results of the analysis of the funerary record and its relation to the spatial organizatíon of the Bronze Age settlement of Peñalosa (Baños de la Encina, Jaén) are presented ín this paper. Differences between habitation units have... more
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      ArchaeologyRitualCultureBronze Age Europe (Archaeology)
According to Childe, the Bronze Age in Europe is thought to be the first ‘golden age’ in European history. The development of metallurgy, clearly associated with the production of weapons, and the expansion of exchange networks covering... more
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      GeographyArchaeologyTextile ArchaeologySocial Archaeology
ABSTRACT: We publish the grave goods of an argaric tomb consisting of a short bronze sword, the first attested in the site, two silver spiral bracelets and a pottery cup, which are preserved in a private collection. Found in the site... more
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      Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology)Bronze Age (Archaeology)Argar CultureMiddle bronze age weapons & tools
In this paper, we present occupation evidences during the Late Bronze Age in the Alicante southern area of Bajo Segura and Bajo Vinalopó. The data that we offer como from the survey project carried out in this area, and the review and... more
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      Prehistoric ArchaeologyMediterranean prehistoryBronze Age Europe (Archaeology)Bronze Age Archaeology
PRECISO AREVALO, M.L.; MARTÍNEZ RODRÍGUEZ, A. y GARCÍA SANDOVAL, J. (2003): “ La musealización de un yacimiento prehistórico: el parque arqueológico de "Los Cipreses" (Lorca, Murcia)” Revista ArqueoMurcia: Revista electrónica de... more
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      Iberian Prehistory (Archaeology)ArqueologíaArqueologiaArgar Culture
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      Theoretical ArchaeologyEarly Bronze Age (Archaeology)Origins of the StateProcessual Archaeology
We present here the results of the 6th season of fieldworks carried out in Peñalosa during summer 2005. Works have been focused in three different areas of the settlement. First, excavation have been carried out in the highest fortified... more
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      Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology)Argar Culture
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      ArchaeologyBronze Age Europe (Archaeology)Argar Culture
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      ArchaeologyPrehistoric ArchaeologyMediterranean prehistoryPrehistory
Description of the metallic objects of the Early Bronze Age (Argaric) settlement of Cabezo Pardo
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      Prehistoric ArchaeologyMediterranean prehistoryMetallurgyBronze Age Europe (Archaeology)
After more than a century of research, an enormous body of scientific literature in the field of El Argar studies has been generated, comprising some 700 bibliographic items. No fully-updated synthesis of the literature is available at... more
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      Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology)Spanish archaeologyIberian Prehistory (Archaeology)Early Bronze Age (Archaeology)
More than 700 silver objects are known from the Middle Bronze Age El Argar culture, which contrasts significantly with the rest of Bronze Age Europe, where silver is mostly rare. This has traditionally been explained by the... more
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      ArchaeologyArchaeometryIberian Prehistory (Archaeology)Archaeometallurgy