Levantine Bronze or Bronze of Levante or Valencian Bronze Age
Geographical range
East Spain
Period
Bronze Age
Dates
c. 2200 — c. 1500 BC
Preceded by
Bell Beaker culture
Followed by
Iberians
Defined by
Miquel Tarradell
Named after its regional range, the Levantine Bronze Age (or Bronze of Levant, or Valencian Bronze) refers to a culture extended over the actual territory of the Valencian Community, in the "Levante" or eastern side of the Iberian peninsula. Its chronological range was between 2200 BC and 1500 BC.
It is considered an autonomous culture in relation to the Argaric culture by Miquel Tarradell in the sixties.[1] The main aspects that allow the distinction of the Valencian Bronze from that of El Argar are the scarcity of metallic objects, the lack of carinated cups and ceramics, and the lack of the rite involving the inhumation of the deceased under its home floor.
Lloma de Betxí, reconstruction
The economy was involved mainly in agriculture and herding. The metallurgy was much more developed in the southern part by the influence of the near Argaric culture.[2]
Oppida were defended by natural elements, tenches, walls and towers. The houses were rectangular and the walls had stone basements.[3]
Caves were used as funerary places.
^Tarradell, Miquel (1963). El País Valenciano del Neolítico a la Iberización : ensayo de Síntesis. Valencia.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^Grau, Elena. La Edad del Bronce Valenciano, una cultura autóctona, in De nómadas a ciudadanos, La Gran Historia de la Comunitat Valenciana (Tomo I). pp. 75–76.
^Lajara Insa, Olga. "El territorio en el bronce valenciano: estado de la cuestión". Departament de Prehistòria i Arqueologia (Universitat de València).
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