The Iberian Peninsula has been inhabited for at least 1.2 million years. Find Your Spain’s overview of Spanish history, continues in today’s article. The first parts of the series dealt with the periods up to approx. 4000 BC and between 4000 BC and 3000 BC. Today we continue our journey through time and take on the period between 3000 BC and 2000 BC.
Early cultures in the country continue to develop and we are gradually seeing the first urban centers emerge. Iberia may have given rise to the European Bell-Beaker’s culture, but researchers are still debating this.
There are relatively few archaeological finds and few known cultures during this millennium on the Iberian Peninsula. The Los Millares civilization based in the province of Almería (Andalusia) continues but, for unknown reasons, disappears. It is being replaced by the next civilization we know of in the southeast of Iberia, namely El Argar.
The Bell-Beaker culture originates around 2800 BC and is named after a certain type of ceramic shaped like an upside-down clock. A bell beaker. The culture continues until between 2300 BC and around 1800 BC.
The Los Millares civilization continues until about the year 2,250 BC.
El Argar is the heir to Los Millares and is located in the same area, but is significantly larger in extent.
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Want to read our post linking to CNN’s article: Powerful women of the El Argar Bronze Age civilization?
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