Los ajuares funerarios del grupo arqueológico argárico constituyen una fuente excepcional para conocer la organización sociopolítica de esta sociedad de inicios de la Edad del Bronce. El presente artículo se centra en el análisis de las tumbas que incluyen hachas metálicas como parte de las ofrendas, una práctica datada en la última fase de desarrollo argárico (1800/1750 -1550 cal ANE). El análisis de los datos disponibles permite confirmar algunas de las hipótesis sociológicas planteadas al respecto por nuestro equipo, y avanzar nuevas perspectivas de conocimiento. En síntesis, la similitud estructural entre los ajuares funerarios con hacha y los previos con alabarda refuerza la clasificación de las primeras como armas. Sin embargo, en términos sociales sus portadores pertenecieron a una clase social distinta a la de los alabarderos, en el cuadro de disimetrías propio de los últimos siglos argáricos. Finalmente, la excepcional concentración de tumbas con hacha en el yacimiento de El Argar vincula el ejercicio de la violencia física a nuevas formas de dominio político a escala regional.Palabras clave: El Argar, armas prehistóricas, hacha, alabarda, metalurgia, Edad del Bronce.Argaric grave goods provide an exceptional source of knowledge as to the sociopolitical organization of society in the Early Bronze Age. The present article focuses on analysing the burials containing metal axes among their grave goods, a practice dating to the last phase of the Argaric Culture (1800/1750-1550 cal BCE). The analysis of the available data confirms some of the sociological hypotheses put forward by our team as well as advancing new prospects of gaining knowledge. In short, the similarity between the assemblages of grave goods comprising axes and earlier halberds bolsters the notion of the earlier objects as weapons. However, in the context of the asymmetries characteristic of the last centuries of the Argaric period, the bearers of axes must have belonged to a social class differing from that of those with halberds. Finally, the great concentration of burials containing axes at the site of El Argar links the practice of physical violence to new forms of political control at a regional scale.
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