Meaning of El Argar | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An archaeological site and the prehistoric centre of an early to middle Bronze Age culture, located near present-day Antas, in the province of Almería, Spain.
2. Argaric culture, the Bronze Age culture of which said archaeological site is the type site; the people of the Argaric culture.
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“From its centre the El Argar culture spread⟳ eastwards towards Granada and northwards to Murcia and Valencia, though losing some traits on the way.”

“The site of El Argar sat on a plateau 1000 x 330 ft (300x90 m) on the Rio Antas in southeastern Spain, 7 mi (12 km) from the sea.[…]El Argar was the largest and most important of some forty other fortified villages that were within a 50 mi (75 km) length along the coast.”

“The palynological interpretations of the overexploitation and forest degradation of El Argar have⟳ been taken from archaeological and bioarchaeological research⟳ in the 1980s and 1990s, which in turn⟳ have⟳ served as the basis for a large number⟳ of anthracological studies in the early 20th^([sic]) century.”

“2011, Gavin Menzies, The Lost Empire of Atlantis, Hachette (Swordfish), unnumbered page, Then, in turn⟳, a mysterious new people, the El Argar, quite suddenly took over from the Millares.”

“El Argar is remarkable not only because of the rapid establishment of a new model⟳ of habitat and burial that broke with the Copper Age tradition, but also because of a combination of easily recognizable social practices and material features that were present⟳ for almost seven hundred years.”

“Although, a profound change⟳ has also been observed at the beginning of the El Argar Early Bronze Age in south-eastern Spain, around 2200 BCE, which saw⟳ the introduction of narrow concave/convex grinding tools operated with wooden grinders, no trough-shaped grinding slabs are known from El Argar sites (Delgado-Raack & Risch, 2015).”

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