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<< Other Photo Pages >> Alto de Almoloya - Castro or Chafurdão in Spain in Murcia

Submitted by DavidMorgan on Thursday, 11 March 2021  Page Views: 2650

Multi-periodSite Name: Alto de Almoloya
Country: Spain
NOTE: This site is 34.937 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Murcia Type: Castro or Chafurdão
Nearest Town: Murcia  Nearest Village: Pliego
Latitude: 37.952738N  Longitude: 1.507883W
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Alto de Almoloya
Alto de Almoloya submitted by dodomad : Aerial view of La Almoloya in 2015 Image courtesy of the Arqueoecologia Social Mediterrània Research Group, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Vote or comment on this photo)
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.

See comments below for link to the paper in Antiquity.

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Note: This Bronze Age burial site in Spain has sparked speculation that women may have been among the rulers of a highly stratified society that flourished on the Iberian peninsula until 1550BC.
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Elite women might have ruled El Argar 4,000 years ago by Andy B on Saturday, 08 May 2021
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Research on the individuals and valuable grave goods found in a princely tomb of La Almoloya, in which a silver diadem stands out, offers a new perspective on the power of the El Argar society during the Bronze Age and the role some women may have had.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210311085324.htm


Silver Diadem Found in Spain May Point to Bronze Age Woman’s Political Power

In 2014, archaeologists unearthed a hoard of ornate objects buried alongside a woman at La Almoloya, a Bronze Age site in southeastern Spain. Now, reports Alberto Quero for Spanish newspaper El País, researchers are theorizing that this unknown woman may have a ruler of El Argar, a class-based civilization that thrived on the Iberian Peninsula between 2200 and 1550 B.C.

Scholars from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) discovered the 25- to 30-year-old woman’s remains near those of a 35- to 40-year-old man who could have been her consort. As the researchers write in the journal Antiquity, radiocarbon dating suggests that the couple was buried around the mid-17th century B.C., at the height of the Argar society’s development.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-uncover-female-ruler-wearing-rare-diadem-180977220/


Social value of silver in El Agar
From Metalle der Macht – Frühes Gold und Silber. Metals of Power – Early Gold and Silver. Landesmuseums für Vorgeschichte 11, Halle,
http://www.researchgate.net/publication/269110252_Social_value_of_silver_in_El_Agar
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Re: Alto de Almoloya by SpaceTravellor on Sunday, 21 March 2021
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The worship of the female cosmic Mother Deity are the oldest in all ancient and native cultures.
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Bronze age burial site in Spain suggests women were among rulers by davidmorgan on Thursday, 11 March 2021
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Researchers in Murcia find exquisite objects at women’s graves later used as sites for elite warrior burials - from the Guardian.

A burial site found in Spain – described by archaeologists as one of the most lavish bronze age graves discovered to date in Europe – has sparked speculation that women may have been among the rulers of a highly stratified society that flourished on the Iberian peninsula until 1550BC.

Since 2013, a team of more than a dozen researchers have been investigating the site of La Almoloya in the southern Spanish region of Murcia.

Home to the El Argar, a society that was among the first to utilise bronze, build complex urban centres and develop into a state organisation, the site is part of a vast territory that at its peak stretched across 35,000 sq km.

Research published on Thursday in the journal Antiquity has documented one of the site’s most tantalising finds: a man and a woman buried in a large ceramic jar, both of whom died close together in the mid-17th century BC.

Buried with them were 29 valuable objects, nearly all of them belonging to the female, believed to be between 25 and 30 years of age. “It’s like everything she touched had silver on it,” said Cristina Rihuete of the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

Among the exquisitely crafted items were bracelets, rings and a rare type of crown, known as a diadem. In total 230 grams of silver were found at the burial site – an amount that at the time would have been worth the equivalent of 938 daily wages.

The prominent role women may have played in the society is echoed in other finds at El Argar; similar diadems were found at four other female burial sites while gravesites of women were later used for the burials of elite warriors, suggesting these sites were viewed as places of high status.

What made this most recent find unique was its location beneath what could be the first bronze age palace unearthed in the region. As the building would have been used for political purposes, it could be that the woman’s power stemmed from politics, said Rihuete.

Men were probably the warriors of society, as suggested by the swords found at several male burial sites, said Roberto Risch of Autonomous University of Barcelona. “Clearly they control the means of violence and they are probably behind the expansion of El Argar.”

The society, which thrived from 2200BC onwards, was highly organised with a wealthy elite that was probably sustained by some sort of tax system. “In western Europe there was nothing of the like,” said Risch, pointing to the rest of Spain where people at the time were living in self-sufficient communities of 50 to 100 people.

By the 16th century BC, all of El Argar’s settlements were abandoned, believed to have been racked by internal uprisings. “Shortly after the woman dies, the whole settlement is burned down,” said Risch. “And not until the Greeks and Phoenicians arrive on the Iberian peninsula did we see anything similar, either in architecture or in political dimension.”
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