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

From: Antiquity | Date: September 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

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The origin of copper-working has been a key issue in European prehistory since V.G. Childe associated it with the development of European civilisation. In spite of Renfrew's (1969, 1970) important early suggestion that metallurgy might have had an independent origin in Iberia, a paradigm has persisted that Europe's westernmost peoples performed secondary and dependent roles as copper-workers. This has found support in the archaeological records of south-eastern Spain, which suggest both a late start for copper metallurgy (late third millennium BC) and its ...

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