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The South-Western Iberian Bronze is a loosely defined Bronze Age culture of Southern Portugal and nearby areas of SW Spain (Huelva, Seville, Extremadura). It replaced the earlier urban and Megalithic existing in that same region in the Chalcolithic age.
La Almoloya is an archaeological site in the southeast corner of the Iberian Peninsula in modern-day Spain. It is a principal site of study for the Bronze Age El Argar culture that flourished from about 2200 BC to 1500 BC and controlled territory in Iberia that is equivalent in size to modern Belgium. [4] [5]
The first and biggest period in Iberia's prehistory is the Paleolithic, which starts c. 1.3 Ma and ends almost coinciding with Pleistocene's ending, c. 11.500 years or 11.5 ka ago. Significant evidence of an extended occupation of Iberia during this period by Homo neanderthalensis has been discovered.
These sculptures were cast from earthen molds in molten bronze in the technique of lost wax casting, but since the mold was rendered useless after only one casting, two identical works have yet to be found amongst these sculptures. Approximately 4,000 sculptures in this style have been excavated, depicting Iberian warriors, riders, religious ...
El Argar is the cultural center of the Early and Middle Bronze Age in Iberia. Metallurgy of bronze and pseudo-bronze (alloyed with arsenic instead of tin ) was practiced. Weapons are the main metallurgic product: knives , halberds , swords , spear and arrow points, and big axes with curved edges are all abundant, not just in the Argaric area ...
The earliest sources of tin in the Early Bronze Age in the Near East are still unknown and the subject of much debate in archaeology. [ 10 ] [ 30 ] [ 31 ] [ 28 ] [ 8 ] [ 32 ] [ 42 ] Possibilities include minor now-depleted sources in the Near East, trade from Central Asia, [ 3 ] Sub-Saharan Africa , [ 30 ] Europe, or elsewhere.
Iberian Middle Bronze Age Iberian Late Bronze Age. 5th millennium BC. Beginning of the Neolithic in the Iberian Peninsula. Autochthonous development of Agriculture in Iberia. Beginning of the Megalithic European culture, spreading to most of Europe and having one of its oldest and main centres in the territory of modern Portugal.
Named after its regional range, the Levantine Bronze Age (or Bronze of Levant, or Valencian Bronze) refers to a culture extended over the actual territory of the Valencian Community, in the "Levante" or eastern side of the Iberian peninsula. Its chronological range was between 2200 BC and 1500 BC.