Manuel M Ruiz-Delgado MA Hunt-Ortiz

Abstract

The increasing number of Late Bronze Age finds appearing in the southem part of the Iberian Peninsula, both isolated and in hoards, suggests the need for a new approach to the economic role of bronze metallurgy in this region. Since the discovery of the weil known hoard from the Huelva estuary in 1923, many new metallurgical finds have been reported. Most of them have been found without any clear archaeological context and frequently without a clear geographical location, since many of them are in private collections. The best documented find with a precise chronological context is the very interesting carp's tongue sword found in the stratigraphic section of the excavation at the Cerro de Ja Miel (Moraleda de Zafayona, prov. Granada), published recently. We can add another hoard discovered in the Guadalquivir river, which is the subject of this note.

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A new Late Bronze Age weapon hoard from the Guadalquivir River in the Province of Seville, Spain. (2022). Historical Metallurgy, 23(1), 31-34. https://hmsjournal.org/index.php/home/article/view/626
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