1993
DOI: 10.1017/s0003598x00045038
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The Bronze Age of La Mancha

Abstract: Intensive work in the La Mancha region of Spain has revealed a hitherto unknown density of Bronze Age settlement. It is based on large, permanent, fortified settlements associated with intensive agriculture of modern Mediterranean type. Their sudden abandonment in the mid 2nd millennium BC is interpreted as evidence of the establishment of stronger political control by local rulers.

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“…Ruiz-Zapata et al, 2002;González-Samperiz et al, 2006). Nevertheless, there is abundant evidence of strong anthropogenic influence on the Manchega Plain during the Holocene, especially since the Bronze and Iron Ages with Mediterranean-type intensive farming (Martín et al, 1993;Nájera and Molina, 2004;Molina et al, 2005).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Ruiz-Zapata et al, 2002;González-Samperiz et al, 2006). Nevertheless, there is abundant evidence of strong anthropogenic influence on the Manchega Plain during the Holocene, especially since the Bronze and Iron Ages with Mediterranean-type intensive farming (Martín et al, 1993;Nájera and Molina, 2004;Molina et al, 2005).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…13: upper zone). This coincides with the establishment of settlement and the expansion of agriculture which took place during the Neolithic-Calcolithic period, the Bronze and Iron Ages and the commencement of the Romanisation of the Iberian Peninsula, between the 5th millennium and the 1st Century BC (Arribas, 1967;Fortea Pérez and Martí Oliver, 1977;Guiliane, 1980) that is evidenced in the MP through the numerous fortified settlements in the Bronze Age and the Mediterranean type intensive farming (Martín et al, 1993;Najera and Molina, 2004;Molina et al, 2005). Finally, the last aeolian reactivation occurred between 0.5 and 0.2 ka BP coinciding with the Little Ice Age registered in Europe between the XV and XVIII centuries (Jones et al, 1998;Mann et al, 1998Mann et al, , 1999Crowley and Kim, 1999;Crowley and Lowery, 2000).…”
Section: Chronology and Environmental Setting Of The Aeolian Depositsmentioning
confidence: 65%
“…En La Mancha Occidental se han localizado especialmente en las vegas de los ríos Guadiana y Azuer y en las proximidades de los Ojos del Guadiana, donde el río tiene todavía un recorrido subterráneo, presentando una distribución regular a intervalos de 4 ó 5 km. La construcción de estas fortificaciones fue una respuesta a la necesidad de ejercer el control y la gestión del agua y de otros recursos económicos básicos (cereal y ganado) y supuso una adaptación de las poblaciones manchegas a las peculiares condiciones ecológicas de La Mancha, destacando no sólo su relación con la disponibilidad de agua subterránea accesible sino también con su ubicación en suelos de margas y calizas miocenas de gran potencialidad agrícola (Nájera y Molina, 1977, 2004a, 2004bNájera, 1982;Molina et al, 2005;Aranda et al, 2008;Martín et al, 1993).…”
Section: La Motilla Del Azuer Un Yacimiento De La Edad Del Bronce Enunclassified