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Expressions of inequality: settlement patterns, economy and social organization in the southwest Iberian Bronze Age (c. 1700-1100 BC)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Leonardo García Sanjuán
Leonardo García Sanjuán*
Affiliation:
Departamento de Prehistoria y Arqueología, Universidad de Sevilla, María de Padilla s/n. 41008, Seville, Spain, lgarcia@cica.es
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Abstract

Intensive survey in southwestern Spain has encouraged reassessment of Copper and Bronze Age settlement in the region. This paper explores the issues of social ranking and stratification, and incorporates both the different types of landscape and their relative economic productivity in new discussions on social complexity.

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SpainBronze AgeIberian southwestsocial rankingsocial stratificationsettlement patterneconomy
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Antiquity , Volume 73 , Issue 280 , June 1999 , pp. 337 - 351
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1999

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