The first specialised copper industry in the Iberian peninsula: Cabezo Juré (2900-2200 BC)

• Autores: Francisco Nocete Calvo
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 80, Nº 309, 2006, págs. 646-657
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • A new research project has revealed a fully specialised copper industry in south-west Iberia at the beginning of the third millennium BC. The settlement is rife with hierarchy: on the slopes of the hill copper-workers smelt and cast and have their own residential zone, while an incipient aristocracy occupies a small fortification at the summit and commands all the imports and means of transport. The author sees this social system as endemic to the new industry.