Bronze Age World

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.

Preferred assertion

Precision: approximate

informs · contextualizes
The silver of the South Iberian El Argar Culture: A first look at production and distribution — Martin Bartelheim, Francisco Contreras Cortés, Auxilio Moreno Onorato, Mercedes Murillo-Barroso, Ernst Pernicka (2012)
Provides archaeometallurgical discussion of south-Iberian silver systems.

Locator: pp. 293–309
informs · critiques interpretation
Iberia and its relations with the Mediterranean in later Prehistory (4th–2nd millennium BCE). A minimalist revision — Borja Legarra Herrero (2025)
Cautions against converting resource potential into unsupported long-distance contact claims.

Locator: pp. 423–448

The mineral belt is not an ancient polity, mine administration or route. Specific extraction must be demonstrated by dated archaeological contexts.

supports · contextualizes
The silver of the South Iberian El Argar Culture: A first look at production and distribution — Martin Bartelheim, Francisco Contreras Cortés, Auxilio Moreno Onorato, Mercedes Murillo-Barroso, Ernst Pernicka (2012)
Provides archaeometallurgical discussion of south-Iberian silver systems.

Locator: pp. 293–309
supports · critiques interpretation
Iberia and its relations with the Mediterranean in later Prehistory (4th–2nd millennium BCE). A minimalist revision — Borja Legarra Herrero (2025)
Cautions against converting resource potential into unsupported long-distance contact claims.

Locator: pp. 423–448