causal hypothesis · hyp_iberia1_metal_district_variability
Variable organization of mining and metallurgy
Iberian metal production was organized differently by resource, region, site and period rather than through one peninsula-wide system.
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Research assessment
statement
Iberian metal production was organized differently by resource, region, site and period rather than through one peninsula-wide system.proposed mechanism
Communities combined local extraction, specialist production, household working, recycling and imported metal in changing proportions.chronology test
Production and provenance signals should vary across Peñalosa, Baiões, Balearic hoards and later exchange nodes.geography test
The model predicts resource landscapes without fixed political ownership polygons.supporting evidence
Direct production at Peñalosa and Baiões and local-provenance evidence in the Lloseta hoard support variability.Research description
Communities combined local extraction, specialist production, household working, recycling and imported metal in changing proportions.
Evidence and sources
Supporting sources
- supports · contextualizes
From Land's End to the Levant: did Britain's tin sources transform the Bronze Age in Europe and the Mediterranean? — R. Alan Williams, Benjamin W. Roberts, and collaborators (2025)Provides long-distance tin evidence and remaining route uncertainty.
Locator: pp. 708–726 - supports · supports
Estudio preliminar de las escorias y escorificaciones del yacimiento metalúrgico de la Edad del Bronce de Peñalosa (Baños de la Encina, Jaén) — Auxilio Moreno Onorato, Francisco Contreras Cortés, Massimo Renzi, Salvador Rovira Llorens, Héctor Cortés Santiago (2010)Provides a copper-production case.
Locator: pp. 305–322 - supports · supports
Smelting and recycling evidences from the Late Bronze Age habitat site of Baiões (Viseu, Portugal) — Elin Figueiredo, Rui J. C. Silva, João C. Senna-Martinez, M. Fátima Araújo, Francisco M. Braz Fernandes, João L. Inês Vaz (2010)Provides smelting and recycling.
Locator: pp. 1623–1634 - supports · supports
A Provenance Analysis in Lloseta Hoard (Mallorca) and Hybridization Phenomena in the Late Bronze Age — Bartomeu Llull Estarellas, Laura Perelló Mateo, Manuel Calvo Trias (2022)Provides a local-provenance hoard case.
Locator: pp. 115–134
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