entity · arch_iberia1_late_el_argar
Late El Argar
Also known as: Argaric system, El Argar
Archaeological label for the later phases of settlement, mortuary, production and political practices conventionally associated with El Argar.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
1700 BCE–1550 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · contextualizes
Establishing the Middle Sea: The Late Bronze Age of Mediterranean Europe (1700–900 BC) — Francesco Iacono, Elisabetta Borgna, Maurizio Cattani, Claudio Cavazzuti, Helen Dawson, Yannis Galanakis, Maja Gori, Cristiano Iaia, Nicola Ialongo, Thibault Lachenal, Alberto Lorrio, Rafael Micó, Barry Molloy, Argyro Nafplioti, Kewin Peche-Quilichini, Cristina Rihuete-Herrada, Roberto Risch (2022)Places late Argaric developments in wider context.
Locator: pp. 371–445, Iberian synthesis - informs · supports distribution
Bronze Age Frontiers and Pottery Circulation: Political and Economic Relations at the Northern Fringes of El Argar, Southeast Iberia, ca. 2200–1550 BCE — Adrià Moreno Gil, Carla Garrido García, Bárbara Bonora Soriano, David Gómez-Gras, Roberto Risch (2025)Defines an archaeological distribution with explicit frontier cautions.
Locator: regional maps and c. 2200–1550 BCE discussion
Research description
The label combines material and social patterns. It is not an ancient self-designation, ethnic name or fixed territorial kingdom.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Archaeological label, not an ethnonym
A modern archaeological grouping that is not an ancient people-name.
Why does this record have this property?
Material and settlement patterns support the classification, but not a single ethnicity or fixed kingdom.
- Bronze Age Frontiers and Pottery Circulation: Political and Economic Relations at the Northern Fringes of El Argar, Southeast Iberia, ca. 2200–1550 BCE
supports assignment and caveat · regional maps and terminology
Evidence and sources
- supports · contextualizes
Establishing the Middle Sea: The Late Bronze Age of Mediterranean Europe (1700–900 BC) — Francesco Iacono, Elisabetta Borgna, Maurizio Cattani, Claudio Cavazzuti, Helen Dawson, Yannis Galanakis, Maja Gori, Cristiano Iaia, Nicola Ialongo, Thibault Lachenal, Alberto Lorrio, Rafael Micó, Barry Molloy, Argyro Nafplioti, Kewin Peche-Quilichini, Cristina Rihuete-Herrada, Roberto Risch (2022)Places late Argaric developments in wider context.
Locator: pp. 371–445, Iberian synthesis - supports · supports distribution
Bronze Age Frontiers and Pottery Circulation: Political and Economic Relations at the Northern Fringes of El Argar, Southeast Iberia, ca. 2200–1550 BCE — Adrià Moreno Gil, Carla Garrido García, Bárbara Bonora Soriano, David Gómez-Gras, Roberto Risch (2025)Defines an archaeological distribution with explicit frontier cautions.
Locator: regional maps and c. 2200–1550 BCE discussion
Referenced records
- Southeast Iberia and post-Argaric interaction frame · entity
- Geography assertion for arch_iberia1_late_el_argar · geography assertion