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Papers by Rafael Micó

Trabajos de Prehistoria, 2013

Scientific Reports

Human hair dated to Late Prehistory is exceedingly rare in the Western Mediterranean. Archaeologi... more Human hair dated to Late Prehistory is exceedingly rare in the Western Mediterranean. Archaeological excavations in the Bronze Age burial and cult cave of Es Càrritx, in Menorca (Balearic Islands) provided some human hair strands involved in a singular funerary rite. This finding offered the opportunity to explore the possible use of drug plants by Late Bronze Age people. Here we show the results of the chemical analyses of a sample of such hair using Ultra-High-Performance Liquid Chromatography-High Resolution Mass Spectrometry (UHPLC-HRMS). The alkaloids ephedrine, atropine and scopolamine were detected, and their concentrations estimated. These results confirm the use of different alkaloid-bearing plants by local communities of this Western Mediterranean island by the beginning of the first millennium cal BCE.

Actes de les IV Jornades d'arqueologia de les Illes Balears: actes de les jornades realitzades a Eivissa els dies 1 i 2 d'octubre de 2010, 2012, ISBN 9788493799434, págs. 71-82, 2012

Excavaciones recientes en el yacimiento argárico de Tira del Lienzo, situado en la vega del Guada... more Excavaciones recientes en el yacimiento argárico de Tira del Lienzo, situado en la vega del Guadalentín y a tan sólo 7 km del asentamiento urbano de La Bastida, han puesto al descubierto un complejo arquitectónico singular, especializado en la producción y la gestión administrativa. Este trabajo constituye un avance del estudio que se está llevando a cabo actualmente sobre el yacimiento. En el edificio central que corona el cerro se documentó una serie de artefactos macrolíticos, cuyo estudio morfotécnico y funcional los vincula con la forja y, de forma más específica, con la forja y el pulido/afilado de láminas de plata nativa. Los adornos de plata fueron utilizados como elementos de distinción por la clase dominante argárica, de forma que el taller de Tira del Lienzo plantea nuevas cuestiones sobre el papel de los metales en las relaciones de producción durante la primera mitad del II milenio ANE en el sudeste peninsular.

Este libro recoge una ingente cantidad de documentacion en forma de textos, documentos y fotograf... more Este libro recoge una ingente cantidad de documentacion en forma de textos, documentos y fotografias procedentes de las excavaciones y analisis cientificos centrados en este yacimiento clave de la Edad del Bronce Argarica. A lo largo de mas de 1600 paginas, se ofrece un recorrido documental por la historia de las intervenciones arqueologicas en La Bastida, desde las primeras excavaciones a cargo de R. de Inchaurrandieta hasta el inicio del Proyecto Bastida y, en cierta manera, un repaso por las maneras de hacer arqueologia en nuestro pais desde el nacimiento de esta disciplina.

V jornades d'Arqueologia de les Illes Balears: Palma, 28 a 30 de setembre, 2012, 2013, ISBN 978-84-154327-6-0, págs. 101-108, 2013

Scientific Reports, 2023

Human hair dated to Late Prehistory is exceedingly rare in the Western Mediterranean. Archaeologi... more Human hair dated to Late Prehistory is exceedingly rare in the Western Mediterranean. Archaeological excavations in the Bronze Age burial and cult cave of Es Càrritx, in Menorca (Balearic Islands) provided some human hair strands involved in a singular funerary rite. This finding offered the opportunity to explore the possible use of drug plants by Late Bronze Age people. Here we show the results of the chemical analyses of a sample of such hair using Ultra-High-Performance Liquid Chromatography-High Resolution Mass Spectrometry (UHPLC-HRMS). The alkaloids ephedrine, atropine and scopolamine were detected, and their concentrations estimated. These results confirm the use of different alkaloidbearing plants by local communities of this Western Mediterranean island by the beginning of the first millennium cal BCE.

Scientific Reports

The Early Bronze Age in Europe is characterized by social and genetic transformations, starting i... more The Early Bronze Age in Europe is characterized by social and genetic transformations, starting in the early 3rd millennium BCE. New settlement and funerary structures, artifacts and techniques indicate times of change with increasing economic asymmetries and political hierarchization. Technological advances in metallurgy also played an important role, facilitating trade and exchange networks, which became tangible in higher levels of mobility and connectedness. Archeogenetic studies have revealed a substantial transformation of the genetic ancestry around this time, ultimately linked to the expansion of steppe- and forest steppe pastoralists from Eastern Europe. Evidence for emerging infectious diseases such as Yersinia pestis adds further complexity to these tumultuous and transformative times. The El Argar complex in southern Iberia marks the genetic turnover in southwestern Europe ~ 2200 BCE that accompanies profound changes in the socio-economic structure of the region. To answ...

La Almoloya es uno de los yacimientos arqueológicos más importantes de la sociedad de “El Argar”,... more La Almoloya es uno de los yacimientos arqueológicos más importantes de la sociedad de “El Argar”, que habitó el sureste de la península Ibérica a inicios de la Edad del Bronce (entre 2200 y 1550 antes de nuestra era). Desde los trabajos pioneros de los hermanos Siret (1890), la arqueología argárica ocupa un lugar protagonista en el estudio de las primeras sociedades clasistas en Europa occidental. En pocas regiones se tiene la oportunidad de investigar un abundante y variado registro arqueológico en el que destacan asentamientos permanentes y densamente poblados, formados por sólidos recintos en piedra de carácter doméstico o colectivo; extensas necrópolis de tumbas individuales y dobles excavadas en el subsuelo de las áreas habitadas, y un amplísimo elenco de artefactos metálicos, líticos, cerámicos y óseos, buena parte de los cuales responden a productos estandarizados a cargo de especialistas. El análisis de estas evidencias configura una sociedad marcada por antagonismos económicos y políticos, en la que los poderosos ejercían la violencia para mantener sus privilegios y para fijar las fronteras de un territorio que, en su época de apogeo, se extendía por casi 35.000 km2. Algunos de los principales y más antiguos asentamientos argáricos se encuentran en las llanuras litorales y prelitorales de Almería y Murcia (El Argar, Fuente Álamo, Gatas, El Oficio, Zapata, Lorca, La Bastida, Monteagudo). Por esta razón, una de las investigaciones actuales más interesantes se centra en averiguar las rutas, los ritmos y las razones de la expansión hacia el interior peninsular, que en poco más de dos siglos se tradujo en la presencia argárica en la Vega de Granada, el Alto Guadalquivir y las estribaciones septentrionales de sierra Morena. La posibilidad de responder a estos interrogantes fue uno de los motivos que impulsaron las excavaciones recientes en La Almoloya, aunque, como veremos, los primeros resultados están favoreciendo el conocimiento general de las comunidades argáricas. Sin temor a equivocarnos, la relevancia del asentamiento llegó a trascender los ámbitos local y comarcal, convirtiéndose en un auténtico centro de gobierno regional.

Journal of Archaeological Research, 2021

The Late Bronze Age (1700–900 BC) represents an extremely dynamic period for Mediterranean Europe... more The Late Bronze Age (1700–900 BC) represents an extremely dynamic period for Mediterranean Europe. Here, we provide a comparative survey of the archaeological record of over half a millennium within the entire northern littoral of the Mediterranean, from Greece to Iberia, incorporating archaeological, archaeometric, and bioarchaeological evidence. The picture that emerges, while certainly fragmented and not displaying a unique trajectory, reveals a number of broad trends in aspects as different as social organization, trade, transcultural phenomena, and human mobility. The contribution of such trends to the processes that caused the end of the Bronze Age is also examined. Taken together, they illustrate how networks of interaction, ranging from the short to the long range, became a defining aspect of the “Middle Sea” during this time, influencing the lives of the communities that inhabited its northern shore. They also highlight the importance of research that crosses modern boundar...

Radiocarbon, 2015

The aim of this article is to bring to light a serious problem affecting radiocarbon dates produc... more The aim of this article is to bring to light a serious problem affecting radiocarbon dates produced at least from 2009 onwards by the AMS Leibniz laboratory at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität (Kiel, Germany). Archaeological observations and cross-checkings between several laboratories confirm that in a significant number of dates, clear deviations of the results from chronological schemes based on stratigraphical sequences and hundreds of measurements have occurred, which usually implies an aging of the 14C values.

Antiquity, 2021

The recent discovery of an exceptionally rich grave at La Almoloya in south-eastern Spain illumin... more The recent discovery of an exceptionally rich grave at La Almoloya in south-eastern Spain illuminates the political context of Early Bronze Age El Argar society. The quantity, variety and opulence of the grave goods emphasise the technological, economic and social dimensions of this unique culture. The assemblage includes politically and ideologically emblematic objects, among which a silver diadem stands out. Of equally exceptional character is the building under which the grave was found—possibly one of the first Bronze Age palaces identified in Western Europe. The architecture and artefacts from La Almoloya provide new insight into emblematic individuals and the exercise of power in societies of marked economic asymmetry.

The faunal remains found in Argaric graves have been scarcely or poorly documented. In recent tim... more The faunal remains found in Argaric graves have been scarcely or poorly documented. In recent times, however, they have been gaining interest under the spotlight of the concept ‘commensality’. The aim of this paper is to review its application in current interpretations, and to explore new analytical avenues taking into account the archaeological records of La Almoloya and La Bastida (Murcia, Spain). Our results show that the deposition of faunal portions was a widespread social practice, from which only children were mostly excluded. Moreover, a trend towards increasing restrictions to faunal offerings in late Argaric times is also suggested. Rather than considering faunal grave goods as markers of economic asymmetries, they are better understood in the political domain: offering ‘food’ was crucial in the recognition of membership in the Argaric communities.

Für den Inhalt der Arbeiten sind die Autoren eigenverantwortlich. © by Landesamt für Denkmalpfleg... more Für den Inhalt der Arbeiten sind die Autoren eigenverantwortlich. © by Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt-Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte Halle (Saale). Das Werk einschließlich aller seiner Teile ist urheberrechtlich geschützt. Jede Verwertung außerhalb der engen Grenzen des Urheberrechtsgesetzes ist ohne Zustimmung des Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt unzulässig. Dies gilt insbesondere für Vervielfältigungen, Übersetzungen, Mikroverfilmungen sowie die Einspeicherung und Verarbeitung in elektronischen Systemen. Papier alterungsbeständig nach din/iso 97o6 Satzschrift FF Celeste, News Gothic

Trabajos de Prehistoria, 2013

Scientific Reports

Actes de les IV Jornades d'arqueologia de les Illes Balears: actes de les jornades realitzades a Eivissa els dies 1 i 2 d'octubre de 2010, 2012, ISBN 9788493799434, págs. 71-82, 2012

V jornades d'Arqueologia de les Illes Balears: Palma, 28 a 30 de setembre, 2012, 2013, ISBN 978-84-154327-6-0, págs. 101-108, 2013

Scientific Reports, 2023

Human hair dated to Late Prehistory is exceedingly rare in the Western Mediterranean. Archaeologi... more Human hair dated to Late Prehistory is exceedingly rare in the Western Mediterranean. Archaeological excavations in the Bronze Age burial and cult cave of Es Càrritx, in Menorca (Balearic Islands) provided some human hair strands involved in a singular funerary rite. This finding offered the opportunity to explore the possible use of drug plants by Late Bronze Age people. Here we show the results of the chemical analyses of a sample of such hair using Ultra-High-Performance Liquid Chromatography-High Resolution Mass Spectrometry (UHPLC-HRMS). The alkaloids ephedrine, atropine and scopolamine were detected, and their concentrations estimated. These results confirm the use of different alkaloidbearing plants by local communities of this Western Mediterranean island by the beginning of the first millennium cal BCE.

Scientific Reports

Journal of Archaeological Research, 2021

Radiocarbon, 2015

Antiquity, 2021

Trabajos de Prehistoria 78/1, 2021

Los restos de fauna, escasa o dudosamente documentados en tumbas del Grupo Argárico, han cobrado ... more Los restos de fauna, escasa o dudosamente documentados en tumbas del Grupo Argárico, han cobrado relevancia en los últimos años al amparo del concepto “comensalidad”. El objetivo de este trabajo es revisar su aplicación en las interpretaciones actuales, así como explorar nuevas vías de análisis a partir de los registros de La Almoloya y La Bastida (Murcia). Los resultados indican que la asignación de porciones faunísticas fue una práctica frecuente y socialmente transversal, que solo excluyó de forma significativa a la población infantil y que, con el tiempo, se hizo más restrictiva. Más que indicadoras de distancia socioeconómica, las ofrendas faunísticas tuvieron un sentido político: la donación de “alimento” resultó clave en el reconocimiento social de buena parte de los miembros de las comunidades argáricas.

The faunal remains found in Argaric graves have been scarcely or poorly documented. In recent times, however, they have been gaining interest under the spotlight of the concept ‘commensality’. The aim of this paper is to review its application in current interpretations, and to explore new analytical avenues taking into account the archaeological records of La Almoloya and La Bastida (Murcia, Spain). Our results show that the deposition of faunal portions was a widespread social practice, from which only children were mostly excluded. Moreover, a trend towards increasing restrictions to faunal offerings in late Argaric times is also suggested. Rather than considering faunal grave goods as markers of economic asymmetries, they are better understood in the political domain: offering ‘food’ was crucial in the recognition of membership in the Argaric communities.

Science Advances , 2021

The emerging Bronze Age (BA) of southeastern Iberia saw marked social changes. Late Copper Age (C... more The emerging Bronze Age (BA) of southeastern Iberia saw marked social changes. Late Copper Age (CA) settlements were abandoned in favor of hilltop sites, and collective graves were largely replaced by single or double burials with often distinctive grave goods indirectly reflecting a hierarchical social organization, as exemplified by the BA El Argar group. We explored this transition from a genomic viewpoint by tripling the amount of data available for this period. Concomitant with the rise of El Argar starting ~2200 cal BCE, we observe a complete turnover of Y-chromosome lineages along with the arrival of steppe-related ancestry. This pattern is consistent with a founder effect in male lineages, supported by our finding that males shared more relatives at sites than females. However, simple two-source models do not find support in some El Argar groups, suggesting additional genetic contributions from the Mediterranean that could predate the BA.

Antiquity, Apr 2021

The time around 22oo BC was marked in the Iberian Peninsula, and particularly in its southern reg... more The time around 22oo BC was marked in the Iberian Peninsula,
and particularly in its southern regions, by profound
social, political, and ideological changes. A substantial
number
of 14C dates confirms that most, if not all, of the Chalcolithic
fortified settlements, as well as the Late Neolithic–Chalcolithic
monumental ditched enclosures, had been abandoned
by that time. Also, an charged production of often highly symbolically
axes made of exotic rocks, flint, ivory, and decorated
schist plaques, Bell Beaker pottery, etc., and the exchange network
through which these were circulated, must have collapsed
rather abruptly or been reorganised at a much more
local scale. In the funerary sphere, the end of the Chalcolithic
is expressed by the abandonment of a collective burial rite.
Bayesian analysis of the absolute dates highlights the fact
that the transition from the final Chalcolithic to the earliest El
Argar period was a matter of a few years, rather than several
decades, in south-east Iberia. New results from a set of early
El Argar settlement layers are helping to define, for the first
time, the social and economic structures that emerged during
the 22nd century BC at the north-eastern margins of the former
»Los Millares« core region. The recent discovery of a
monumental fortification system at La Bastida, structurally
unrelated to any Chalcolithic
construction, opens new questions
on the political dimension of the beginning of El Argar.
The detailed study of these early El Argar settlements and
their corresponding burials provides a better understanding
of the social and political processes responsible for the
changes around 22oo BC in the Iberian Peninsula.

Archaeological research carried out during the last decades in the Southeast of the Iberian Penin... more Archaeological research carried out during the last decades in the Southeast of the Iberian Peninsula has allowed us to gain a better understanding of the social structures of the Copper and Bronze Ages. As in other parts of the Old World, the question about the importance of metallurgy for the economic and political development of society also rises in this region, well known for its rich ore deposits. After a general introduction into the so called Los Millares and El Argar cultures and the forces of production implied in metal working, the relations of production and consumption through which metal circulated are confronted. Hereby it becomes manifest how far the economic organisation of metallurgy and the political structure of society were mutually related.

The “Bastida Project” has been led by an interdisciplinary team of the Universitat Autònoma de Ba... more The “Bastida Project” has been led by an interdisciplinary team of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona since 2008. La Bastida, the archaeological site after which it is named, has a long research history that has made it one of the benchmarks for knowledge on Europe’s Bronze Age. The excavations carried out at various sectors of the site, as well as the specialized investigations of the last ten years have enabled the identification of three major occupation phases. The results confirm the importance of the settlement in its historical context.

The aim of this paper is to discuss issues of precision and accuracy of radiocarbon dates when te... more The aim of this paper is to discuss issues of precision and accuracy of radiocarbon dates when testing a specific archaeological hypothesis. Our case study is framed in the Argaric “marriage versus descent” debate (Bronze Age of southeast Spain), where a high chronological resolution is needed in order to interpret the time gap between the deaths of the two adults of opposite sex usually found in double burials. We have dated the time of death of an Argaric male by means of six different skeletal samples. The results of this multiple dating of a single event support the precision of the method but raises questions over the limits of its accuracy when the human life span is on the same scale as the chronological resolution.

We present the results of an extensive dating programme of Argaric burials containing halberds. I... more We present the results of an extensive dating programme of Argaric burials containing halberds. In Southeast Iberia elite males were buried with this weapon during the first two centuries of the second millennium BCE. After discussing what does this chronology involve for the typological development of the Argaric halberds and their funerary contexts, a general overview is provided on the origin and expansion of western and central European halberds, taking into account all the absolute dates currently available. Finally, we return to the Iberian Peninsula, placing the appearance of the metal halberds within the general social and political changes that took place during the second half of the third millennium BCE and at the beginning of the Argaric state.

El legado de Mula en la historia, 2016

En pocas regiones se tiene la oportunidad de investigar un abundante y variado registro arqueológico en el que destacan asentamientos permanentes y densamente poblados, formados por sólidos recintos en piedra de carácter doméstico o colectivo;
extensas necrópolis de tumbas individuales y dobles excavadas en el subsuelo de las áreas habitadas, y un amplísimo elenco de artefactos metálicos, líticos, cerámicos y óseos, buena parte de los cuales responden a productos estandarizados a cargo de especialistas. El análisis de estas evidencias configura una sociedad marcada por antagonismos económicos y políticos, en la que los poderosos ejercían la violencia para mantener sus privilegios y para fijar las fronteras de un territorio que, en su época de apogeo, se extendía por casi 35.000 km2.

Algunos de los principales y más antiguos asentamientos argáricos se encuentran en las llanuras litorales y prelitorales de Almería y Murcia (El Argar, Fuente Álamo, Gatas, El Oficio, Zapata, Lorca, La Bastida, Monteagudo). Por esta razón, una de las investigaciones actuales más interesantes se centra en averiguar las rutas, los ritmos y las razones de la expansión hacia el interior peninsular, que en poco más de dos siglos se tradujo en la presencia argárica en la Vega de Granada, el Alto Guadalquivir y las estribaciones septentrionales de sierra Morena. La posibilidad de responder a estos interrogantes fue uno de los motivos que impulsaron las excavaciones recientes en La Almoloya, aunque, como veremos, los primeros resultados están favoreciendo el conocimiento general de las comunidades argáricas. Sin temor a equivocarnos, la relevancia del asentamiento llegó a trascender los ámbitos local y comarcal, convirtiéndose en un auténtico centro de gobierno regional.

The detailed, rich and diverse Argaric funerary record offers an opportunity to explore social di... more The detailed, rich and diverse Argaric funerary record offers an opportunity to explore social dimensions that usually remain elusive for prehistoric research, such us social rules on kinship rights and obligations, sexual tolerance and the role of funerary practices in preserving the economic and political organization. This paper addresses these topics through an analysis of the social meaning of Argaric double tombs by looking at body treatment and composition of grave goods assemblages according to gender and class affiliation. The Argaric seems to have been a conservative society, scarcely tolerant regarding homosexuality, and willing to celebrate ancestry associated to certain places as a means of asserting residence and property rights.

Am Beginn des 2. Jts. v. Chr. fanden im Südosten der Iberischen Halbinsel einschneidende soziale... more Am Beginn des 2. Jts. v. Chr. fanden im Südosten der Iberischen
Halbinsel einschneidende soziale und politische Veränderungen
statt. Die Entstehung tiefgreifender ökonomischer Ungleichheiten innerhalb der Gemeinschaften basierte offenbar
zu einem großen Teil auf der Kontrolle über die sekundäre
Metallurgie, das heißt Produktionsprozessen wie beispielsweise
dem Schmieden. Diesbezüglich stellt der unlängst ausgegrabene architektonische Komplex von einer El Argar
Fundstelle bei Tira del Lienzo (Totana, Prov. Murcia) einen
außergewöhnlichen Befund dar. Hier wurde eine Serie makrolithischer Artefakte aufgenommen, die mit dem Schmieden und Schleifen von Metallen in Verbindung gebracht werden können und, wie es technologische und funktionale Studien zeigen, speziell mit der Verarbeitung von Silber.

Les fouilles conduites au cours de l’été 2014 par une équipe d’archéologues de l’Université Auto... more Les fouilles conduites au cours de l’été 2014 par une équipe
d’archéologues de l’Université Autonome de Barcelone à La
Almoloya, dans la province de Murcia, ont mis au jour l’un des
plus anciens palais européens ainsi qu’une somptueuse tombe
princière. Le site s’avère l’un des principaux centres politiques
et urbains de la société d’El Argar, qui s’est épanouie dans
l’ouest du bassin méditerranéen au cours de l’âge du Bronze,
entre 2200 et 1550 av. J.-C.

Band 11/II | 2014 herausgegeben von Harald Meller, Roberto Risch und Ernst Pernicka Halle (Saale)... more Band 11/II | 2014 herausgegeben von Harald Meller, Roberto Risch und Ernst Pernicka Halle (Saale) 2o14 Die Beiträge dieses Bandes wurden einem Peer-Review-Verfahren unterzogen.

El Argar society developed during the Early Bronze Age (ca. 2200-1550 BC) in southeast Iberia, be... more El Argar society developed during the Early Bronze Age (ca. 2200-1550 BC) in southeast Iberia, becoming one of the Ḁrst state-level societies in continental Europe. As part of its strategy to take control over the means of production, specialized craftsmen gener-ated such a characteristic, sophisticated and highly standardized pottery repertory, comprising mainly eight basic vessel types. Researches on pottery have mainly focused on morphometric traits often overlooking its functional, economic or ritual dimensions. In the context of the “Bastida Project”, we have carried out interdisciplinar studies focused on production, use and circulation of Argaric vessels. This research is based on organic residues analysis, determination of lipid component by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS), chromatography coupled to isotope ratio mass spectrometry (GC-C-IRMS), petrographic analyses and, Ḁnal-ly, the mesurement of volumetric capacities. The combination of data drawn from those analysis enables us to suggest several working hypothesis. First, there was a correlation between manufacturing techniques, capacity and material content. Second, many standardized bowls with a capacity of 300 ml can be interpreted as ration or measurement units. In this sense, we suggest that these units were tied to a controlled distribution of foodstuffs by the Argaric elites. Third, some functional differences between vessels found in funerary and domestic contexts may be suggested.

The time around 2200 BCE was marked in the western Mediterraean by profound social, political and... more The time around 2200 BCE was marked in the western Mediterraean by profound social, political and ideological changes. A substan-tial number of 14C dates conḀrms that most, if not all of the Chalcolithic fortiḀed settlements as well as the Late Neolithic–Chal-colithic monumental ditched enclosures, dominating the landscape during most of the 3rd millennium BCE, had been abandoned by that time. Precisely at that moment the Ḁrst urban centre of the western Mediterranean was founded in the highly protected loca-tion on the hill of La Bastida (Murcia, SE Iberia). This early El Argar centre was carefully planed and defended by a fortiḀcation system, which deploys new notions of poliorcetics and reminds the defensive architecture of the eastern Mediterranean. The position of La Bastida in a mountainous landscape with little agricultural potential and at a certain distance from the main communication routes, suggests a markedly political motivation behind its foundation, which needs to be understood in the context of the formation of the Ḁrst state or state-like organisation in western Europe. New investigations and excavations are revealing further aspects of this monumental architecture and its relevance to the political structures emerging during the Ḁrst centuries of El Argar, when different forms of violence seems to have been critical.

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(esp) Hace 4.200 años, las comunidades calcolíticas del sureste peninsular sufrieron una profunda transformación que derivó en la configuración de una sociedad de clases fuertemente estratificada y de corte estatal, que denominamos "argárica" o de "El Argar". Los trabajos de investigación en los yacimientos arqueológicos de La Bastida y la Tira del Lienzo, en Totana, y La Almoloya, en Pliego-Mula (Murcia), arrojan nueva luz sobre esta sociedad de la Edad del Bronce.
Este video recoge la conferencia que el equipo de la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, coordinado por los profesores Vicente Lull, Rafael Micó, Cristina Rihuete y Roberto Risch, impartió en el Museo Arqueológico Nacional, en Madrid, el 8 de octubre de 2014.

(eng) 4200 years ago, Copper Age communities from south-eastern Iberia underwent a deep transformation, evolving into a highly stratified class society with a State-like political organisation, named "Argaric" or "El Argar society". Recent research in La Bastida, La Tira del Lienzo and La Almoloya archaeological sites in Murcia (Spain) shed new light on this Bronze Age society.
This video records the presentation of the last discoveries on these archaeological sites by the research team from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Prof. Vicente Lull, Rafael Micó, Cristina Rihuete y Roberto Risch), held at the National Archaeological Museum of Spain (Madrid, 8 October 2014).

Teoría de la producción de la vida social. Un análisis de los mecanismos de explotación en el sud... more Teoría de la producción de la vida social. Un análisis de los mecanismos de explotación en el sudeste peninsular (c. 3000-1550 cal AN E)

A continuación, esbozaremos el papel de la ideología en la construcción del conocimiento de las s... more A continuación, esbozaremos el papel de la ideología en la construcción del conocimiento de las sociedades
prehistóricas a partir de un caso concreto que alude a la visión occidental de un fragmento del
desarrollo humano como si de un proceso único, lógico y unívoco se tratara. La existencia de trayectorias
humanas muy diferentes en otras partes del mundo suele ser pasado por alto o concebido como casos
exóticos, por lo que rara vez lleva a cuestionar la “lógica” de nuestra Weltanschauung. Como trasfondo de
este proceder, la ideología económica y política capitalista brinda las premisas teóricas para captar, a su
manera, un fenómeno prehistórico que, como el megalitismo atlántico, constituye un ejemplo de cómo una
materialidad social que podríamos considerar realmente “exótica” y de complejas implicaciones explicativas,
es “encajada” en el recto camino del progreso hacia la modernidad y responde a lo que cabría esperar
de una idiosincrasia que se reconoce nuestra y se presupone perenne.

Excavaciones recientes en el yacimiento argárico de Tira del Lienzo, situado en la vega del Guada... more Excavaciones recientes en el yacimiento argárico de Tira del Lienzo, situado en la vega del Guadalentín y a tan sólo 7 km
del asentamiento urbano de La Bastida, han puesto al descubierto un complejo arquitectónico singular, especializado
en la producción y la gestión administrativa. Este trabajo constituye un avance del estudio que se está llevando a cabo
actualmente sobre el yacimiento. En el edificio central que corona el cerro se documentó una serie de artefactos
macrolíticos, cuyo estudio morfotécnico y funcional los vincula con la forja y, de forma más específica, con la forja y
el pulido/afilado de láminas de plata nativa. Los adornos de plata fueron utilizados como elementos de distinción por
la clase dominante argárica, de forma que el taller de Tira del Lienzo plantea nuevas cuestiones sobre el papel de los
metales en las relaciones de producción durante la primera mitad del II milenio ANE en el sudeste peninsular.

Archaeology is still in need of a theoretical and methodological framework for addressing migrati... more Archaeology is still in need of a theoretical and methodological framework for addressing migration movements from a historical perspective. In this study, we explore the possibility of identifying major migration episodes through a palaeodemographic approach, which combines anthropological, radiometric, and settlement information. This methodology is illustrated in the context of Menorca, a small and relatively isolated island of approximately 7oo km2, located at the
easternmost point of the Balearic archipelago. The relatively abundant archaeological and anthropological information allows us to establish a detailed demographic sequence for Menorca over the last four thousand years and to recognise important immigration phases. GIS modelling reveals how the exceptional population growth of prehistoric Menorca
gradually led to the establishment of a sustainable settlement pattern and land-use strategy.
Given the defined limits of an island, our second question concerns how past communities reacted during phases of immigration and demographic growth. Islands are always exposed to migratory movements, while their local communities are usually aware that they were also once migrants. We therefore need to inquire into the political and ideological structures which emerged on the island as a result of encounters between populations from different geographical regions
and socio-political backgrounds. The Balearic Islands, and Menorca in particular, seem to manifest a clear distinction in their social organisation from contemporaneous societies on the continent and other western Mediterranean islands during the Bronze and Iron Ages, despite the uninterrupted contact and exchange relations between these regions.

Cypsela, 2004

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La visita a cualquier museo o el paseo por un yacimiento arqueológico permite reconocer que los a... more La visita a cualquier museo o el paseo por un yacimiento arqueológico permite reconocer que los artefactos más abundantes que nos han llegado de las sociedades pasa das son sus recipientes cerámicos o, mejor dicho, los restos fragmentados de estos. La tecnología cerámica fue practicada de manera puntual por algunas comunidades del con tinente euroasiático durante el Paleolítico superior, siendo las fechas más antiguas las correspondientes al complejo de yacimientos moravos formado por Dolni Vestonice I y

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Science Advances, 2021