Iron Age Iberia and the Lost Civilization of the Tartessians
Tides of History
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The Atlantic Bronze Age
Atlantic Europe, including western Iberia, stands out in the way it clung to Bronze even after Iron had become commonplace everywhere else. Bronze was ideologically important, a medium for the display of status and religious belief not just utilitarian technology. The networks that traded the raw materials that became Bronze spread those beliefs about what Bronze was and how it fit into society.
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