Bronze Age Secrets Revealed: Scientists Map the Lost “Frontiers” of Iberia

El Argar used regional pottery networks to enforce political and economic dominance over its neighbors, revealing early state formation in prehistoric Iberia. Researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology have identified the political and economic boundaries that separated El Argar, widely regarded as the first state-level [...]

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