Summary
The Argaric halberd is a specialized weapon for hand‐to‐hand combat, with its full development in the south‐east of the Iberian Peninsula between 2000 and 1800 cal BCE. This paper deals with the Argaric combat system and the factors that drove this type of confrontation, given the social order, the active and passive archaeological traces present in these weapons and their effects on the human body. This pragmatic order of directing interpersonal violence had three patriarchal socio‐political implications: the domestication of the body through the discipline of instruction and combat, a ritual of identification represented in funerary practices and a symbol of power, but only available to a small number of men. The Argaric halberdiers occupy an intermediate position in the transition between an armed man and a soldier, probably intersecting with the figures of the hero and the warrior.
In Supporting Information Annexe 1, we develop a morphological description, based on the system of hafting the Argaric halberds and, in Annexe 2, we present the funerary contexts with interesting data for the combat system.
Este artículo da a conocer un crisol con pie macizo inédito procedente del asentamiento de la Edad del Bronce de Can Mur (Valldoreix, Barcelona). Se describen sus características tipológicas y se aportan datos composicionales de las adherencias de base cobre (FRXp). Se exponen los crisoles sincrónicos con sistema de prensión existentes en la Península Ibérica y, tras detallar los paralelos en el Próximo Oriente y Europa, se propone su llegada a través del Mediterráneo Occidental vinculados a otras innovaciones metalúrgicas. Finalmente se detallan las características principales de la metalurgia de la Edad del Bronce en el nordeste de la Península Ibérica. Se hace especial hincapié en la innovación tecnológica, estructuración de la producción y circulación de materiales entre regiones. Palabras clave: Metalurgia prehistórica; Crisol con perforación para el enmangue; Crisol con pie macizo; FRXp; Difusión tecnológica; Prehistoria Reciente; Mediterráneo Occidental.
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