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Map of Iberian Late Bronze Age Cultures c.1300 BC |
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The transition from Chalcolithic to Bronze Age in Iberia was a slow process, with different levels of advancement in different regions. By the late fourteenth century BC, however, full coverage had been achieved. By this stage various changes had taken place. The early leader in Bronze technology, the Argaric culture, had collapsed, leaving an uncertain Post-Argar period in the south-east. The Levantine Bronze continued, having absorbed something of the Motillas civilisation, but it was now buffered up against strong Urnfield influences which were reaching across the Pyrenees. The central Iberian Cogotas I was similarly under some pressure, mainly thanks to a steady trickle of pre-Celtic Indo-European migrants. That process had been started over a thousand years before, by the Bell Beaker culture from about 2800-2500 BC. The Atlantic Bronze Age was now forging a degree of cultural unity amongst the Atlantic coastal groups. Those groups included the Asturian-Cantabrian Bronze, the Galician Bronze (which had absorbed the Montelavar group), the Western Bronze (which had absorbed the Chalcolithic Vila Nova de São Pedro), and the South-West Iberian Bronze. The Western Andalusian Bronze filled the gap between that and the former Argaric territories. A clickable version of this map is available for desktop displays. To select a tribe or territory for further information, click on its name or anywhere within its borders.
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