Publisher： Cambridge University Press
E-ISSN： 1745-1744|80|309|646-657
ISSN： 0003-598x
Source： Antiquity, Vol.80, Iss.309, 2006-09, pp. : 646-657
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Abstract
A new research project has revealed a fully specialised copper industry in south-west Iberia at the beginning of the third millennium BC. The settlement is rife with hierarchy: on the slopes of the hill copper-workers smelt and cast and have their own residential zone, while an incipient aristocracy occupies a small fortification at the summit and commands all the imports and means of transport. The author sees this social system as endemic to the new industry.
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