The Prehistory of Iberia

Abstract

1. Debating Early Social Stratification and the State in Iberian Prehistory: An Introduction Maria Cruz Berrocal, Leonardo Garcia Sanjuan and Antonio Gilman Part I: Introducing Social Stratification and the State in Iberian Prehistory 2. Were There States During the Later Prehistory of Southern Iberia? Antonio Gilman 3. Archaeology is (Sometimes) History, or It is Nothing Maria Cruz Berrocal Part II: Case Studies 4. Complex Systems, Social Networks and the Evolution of Social Complexity in the East of Spain from the Neolithic to pre-Roman Times Joan Bernabeu Auban, Andrea Moreno Martin and C. Michael Barton 5. Villages of Wealth and Resistance in Paradise: Millaran and Argaric Chiefdoms in the Iberian Southeast Antonio Ramos Millan 6. Against Uniformity Cultural Diversity: The Others in Argaric Societies Gonzalo Aranda Jimenez 7. Social Complexity in Copper Age Southern Iberia (c. 3200-2200 CAL BC): Reviewing the 'State' Hypothesis at Valencina de la Concepcion (Seville, Spain) Leonardo Garcia Sanjuan and Mercedes Murillo Barroso 8. Bronze Age Political Landscapes in La Mancha Marcella Chris Brodsky, Antonio Gilman and Concepcion Martin Morales 9. Re-Thinking Social Hierarchisation and Stratification in the Bronze Age of the Balearic Islands Manuel Calvo Trias, Daniel Albero Santacreu, Jaime Garcia Rossello, David Javaloyas Molina and Victor Guerrero Ayuso 10. Social Dynamics in the Recent Prehistory of Northern Iberia: Examining the 'Margins' of the Mediterranean Regions Roberto Ontanon 11. Atlantic Rock Art: Transformation and Tradition during Late Prehistory Manuel Santos Estevez 12. Social Change, Social Resistance. A Long-Term Approach to the Processes of Transformation of Social Landscapes in the NW Iberian Peninsula Cesar Parcero Oubina and Felipe Criado Boado 13. Big Men Showing Off: The Ideology and Practice of Social Inequality in the Atlantic Late Bronze Age of Iberia Xose-Lois Armada 14. Non-Hierarchical Approaches to the Iron Age Societies: Metals and Inequality in the Castro Culture of the Northwestern Iberian Peninsula Ines Sastre and F. Javier Sanchez-Palencia 15. Households, Merchants and Feasting: Socio-Economic Dynamics and Commoners' Agency in the Emergence of the Tartessian world (11th-8th centuries BC) Ana Delgado Hervas 16. Tartessos and the Orientalizing Elites Carlos Gonzalez Wagner 17. Oppida, Lineages and Heroes in the Society of Princes. The Iberians of the Upper Guadalquivir Arturo Ruiz Rodriguez and Manuel Molinos Molinos Part III: Conclusion 18. Social Stratification and the State in Prehistoric Europe: The Wider Perspective Chris Scarre