causal hypothesis · hyp_iberia1_argar_institutional_reproduction
Argaric institutional reproduction crisis
The end of El Argar resulted from failure or rejection of institutions that concentrated settlement, production, agrarian surplus and differentiated power.
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Research assessment
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The end of El Argar resulted from failure or rejection of institutions that concentrated settlement, production, agrarian surplus and differentiated power.proposed mechanism
Tensions within highly unequal political-economic arrangements reduced the ability of central settlements and elite practices to reproduce themselves.chronology test
Terminal changes should cluster around the mid-sixteenth century BCE but need not be simultaneous at every site.geography test
Strongest fit should occur within late Argaric distributions, with different successor trajectories outside them.supporting evidence
Evidence for inequality, organized production and changing settlement systems makes an internal institutional model plausible.Research description
Tensions within highly unequal political-economic arrangements reduced the ability of central settlements and elite practices to reproduce themselves.
Evidence and sources
Supporting sources
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Emblems and spaces of power during the Argaric Bronze Age at La Almoloya, Murcia — Vicente Lull, Cristina Rihuete-Herrada, Roberto Risch, Bárbara Bonora, Eva Celdrán-Beltrán, Maria Inés Fregeiro, Claudia Molero, Adrià Moreno, Camila Oliart, Carlos Velasco-Felipe, Lourdes Andúgar, Wolfgang Haak, Vanessa Villalba-Mouco, Rafael Micó (2021)Provides strong inequality and political-performance evidence.
Locator: pp. 329–348 - supports · supports
Agriculture and Social Control: From the trend towards monoculture to agricultural diversity in El Argar — Adrián Mora-González, Francisco Javier Jover Maestre, Francisco Contreras Cortés, Juan Antonio López Padilla (2022)Provides an agricultural-control model.
Locator: pp. 389–409 - 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 the terminal transition in a comparative frame.
Locator: pp. 371–445
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