Conflicting evidence? Weapons and skeletons in the Bronze Age of south-east Iberia

• Autores: Gonzalo Aranda Jiménez, Sandra Montón Subias, Sylvia Alejandra Jiménez Brobeil
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 83, Nº 322, 2009, págs. 1038-1051
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • With its forts, swords, halberds and daggers the Argaric people of south-east Spain has long been seen as a warrior society. The authors dismantle this model, showing that defences around settlements and weapons and knives in tombs have quite different social roles. An analysis of skeletons showed that while these Bronze Age people might have been periodically clubbing each other on the head, they were not doing a lot of lethal stabbing.