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 …

[ES] La aleación de cobre con estaño aparece por primera vez en el sureste de la península
ibérica en época argárica. En el presente estudio realizamos una recopilación de todos los …

Abstract Middle Bronze Age was a transition period in Iberia, characterised by the
emergence of bronzes after more than a millennium of a conservative metallurgy of copper …

Las comunidades argáricas han sido consideradas como la culminación de un largo
proceso de creciente complejidad que condujo hacia formas sociales cada vez más …

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 …

Big narratives on the role of metallurgy in social change and technological innovations are
common in archaeology. However, informed discussion of these issues requires a …

The detailed, rich and diverse Argaric funerary record ofers an opportunity to explore social
dimensions that usually remain elusive for prehistoric research, such us social rules on …

Metallurgy is a common topic when discussing Early Bronze Age societies, as its social
impact has been traditionally used to support the appearance of social inequality. Different …

This study presents a new isotope and element-composition database of copper ores from
Mallorca and Menorca. The main goal of this paper is to characterize copper resources from …

The islands of Ibiza and Formentera (the Pityusic Islands in the Balearic archipelago, Spain)
were one of the last insular contexts to be colonised in the Mediterranean. The first …