Bronze Age pottery reveals El Argar's economic and political boundaries

Ceramics reveal the boundaries of Western Europe’s first state

While in the East, Egypt was entering its Middle Kingdom, Hammurabi was building the Babylonian Empire, and the Minoan culture of the First Palaces was flourishing in Crete, Western Europe was still emerging from the Neolithic era — except in the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula.Seguir leyendo

Bronze Age pottery reveals El Argar's economic and political boundaries

Researchers from the UAB and the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology have identified the economic and political borders separating El Argar, considered to be the first state-society in the Iberian Peninsula, from its La Mancha and Valencia Bronze Age neighbors some 4,000 years ago.

The “frontiers” of Southeast Iberian Bronze Age communities identified

Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona—Researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology have identified the economic and political borders separating El Argar, considered to be the first state-society in the Iberian Peninsula, from its La Mancha and Valencia Bronze Age neighbors some 4,000 years ago. These communities, with... Read more »

Bronze Age pottery reveals El Argar's economic and political boundaries - Tech and Science Post

Researchers from the UAB and the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology have identified the economic and political borders separating El Argar, considered to be the first state-society in the Iberian Peninsula, from its La Mancha and Valencia Bronze Age neighbors some 4,000 years ago. These communities, with less centralized social structures, maintained complex relations with the Argaric culture. The study, based on an innovative analysis…

A recent study carried out by researchers from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and the Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology has made it possible to identify with precision the economic and political borders that, approximately 4,000 years ago, delimited the territory of El Argar. Considered the first state structure of the Iberian peninsula, this [...]