Prehistoric Europe by Champion Timothy. Whittle Alasdair. Shennan Stephen. Gamble Clive

Author:Champion, Timothy.,Whittle, Alasdair.,Shennan, Stephen.,Gamble, Clive.
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-315-42211-4
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)

Fig. 6.23 (a) Plan of the site of Los Millares, south-east Spain (after Harding, 1978). (b) Los Millares tomb 40. This contained the remains of at least 100 individuals; the grave goods included more than 120 ceramic vessels and 170 other items. Those illustrated are a decorated piece of ivory, an ivory comb, two stone axes, a stone bead and a copper axe (after Müller-Karpe, 1974). Scale: c, 1:1,6.

Although the chronology is not as secure as it might be, it seems that prior to the end of the fourth millennium no such evidence for social differentiation and hierarchical organization is apparent in either Portugal or south-east Spain so that we are seeing in these two areas, largely to the exclusion of the rest of Iberia, developments which can really only be paralleled in the contemporary Aegean, In southern France some similar sites are now emerging, of which the best known is Lébous in the Hérault (Arnal, 1973). Lébous (Fig.6.24) starts at the end of the fourth millennium with material of the Copper Age Fontbouisse culture and continues into the early Bronze Age. It is likely that this site too represents some kind of regional centre in its contrast with the surrounding hamlets, but the striking wealth and differentiation of the Iberian megalithic tombs is not matched by those of the Hérault.

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