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Bronze Age metallurgy in southeast Spain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Ignacio Montero Ruiz
Ignacio Montero Ruiz*
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Museo de América, Avd. Reyes Católicos 6, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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A generally accepted model identifies a causal relationship between the appearance and development of metallurgy in western Europe and increasing social complexity, with metals being assigned the determinant role. This multidisciplinary study of the Vera region of southeast Spain suggests that metal production in the region was small-scale and of secondary importance in generating social and cultural changes.

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Antiquity , Volume 67 , Issue 254 , March 1993, pp. 46 - 57
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1993

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