Abstract
I develop in this work the hypothesis that the protohistoric chariots constituted objects of prestige and attributes of honour for the warrior aristocracies in their process of consolidation as ruling classes, and as such, the archeologic context of these vehicles should be constituted by objects or symbols associated to a determined mentality of elitist type, characteristic of the dominant social groups. Starting from this point I go over the archeologic sources that traditionally have served to the authors in defense of the existence of chariots in the peninsular southwest before and during the phoenician colonization, rejecting as unsuitable some —the Penalsordo rupestrian paintings- and maintaining some others in question marks —the decorated steles of the southwest—.
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