Bronze of Levante
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Bronze of Levante is the name of the proto-Iberian
culture extending approximately by the Land of Valencia (Spanish Levante) in the 2nd millennium BCE. It is contemporary of the culture of El Argar
by which it is strongly influenced.
Between c. 1500 and 1300 BCE, the people of this culture colonized La Mancha
with military constructions called Motillas
.
List of all mentioned in this article archaeological cultures:
Iberians
The Iberians were a set of peoples that Greek and Roman sources identified with that name in the eastern and southern coasts of the Iberian peninsula at least from the 6th century BC...
culture extending approximately by the Land of Valencia (Spanish Levante) in the 2nd millennium BCE. It is contemporary of the culture of El Argar
El Argar
El Argar is the type site of an Early Bronze Age culture called the Argaric culture, which flourished from the town of Antas, in what is now the province of Almería, south-east of Spain, between c. 1800 BC and 1300 BC....
by which it is strongly influenced.
Between c. 1500 and 1300 BCE, the people of this culture colonized La Mancha
La Mancha
La Mancha is a natural and historical region or greater comarca located on an arid, fertile, elevated plateau of central Spain, south of Madrid, stretching between the Montes de Toledo and the western spurs of the Serrania de Cuenca. It is bounded on the south by the Sierra Morena and on the north...
with military constructions called Motillas
Motillas
The motillas were the first attested settlement of La Mancha , which took place in the Middle Bronze Age by people belonging to the culture of Bronze of Levante....
.
List of all mentioned in this article archaeological cultures:
- Cogotas
- Montelavar
- Vila Nova de Sao PedroVila Nova de São PedroThe Castro of Vila Nova de São Pedro is a Chalcolithic archaeological site in the civil parish of Vila Nova de São Pedro, municipality of Azambuja, in the Portuguese Estremadura area of Lezíria do Tejo. It is important for the discovery of thousands of arrowheads within its fortified settlement,...
(VNSP) - Atalaia
- MotillasMotillasThe motillas were the first attested settlement of La Mancha , which took place in the Middle Bronze Age by people belonging to the culture of Bronze of Levante....
- El ArgarEl ArgarEl Argar is the type site of an Early Bronze Age culture called the Argaric culture, which flourished from the town of Antas, in what is now the province of Almería, south-east of Spain, between c. 1800 BC and 1300 BC....
- Astur-Cantabrian Bronze
- Galician Bronze
- Western Bronze
- Slabs of Extremadura
- Alentejan Late Bronze
- Western Andalusian Late Bronze
- Post-Argar
- Bronze of Levante
- Urnfield cultureUrnfield cultureThe Urnfield culture was a late Bronze Age culture of central Europe. The name comes from the custom of cremating the dead and placing their ashes in urns which were then buried in fields...
- Balearic Megalithism