Metal Age

The Age of Metals in the Iberian Peninsula

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Copper age

During the Iron Age and Bronze Age, Tartessos emerged as a major regional power on the peninsula. This civilization was rich in minerals such as silver and gold. I also play an important role in cultural exchanges between the Iberian peninsula and the Mediterranean world.

Coper age began around 3000 BCE, during these period there where different innovations in the manufacture of decorative objects and tools that represent an important development of social complexity and cultural avances.

The main cultures of the Bronze are those of the Argar (Almería, Granada and Murcia), the cyclopean (Balearic Islands) and that of the castros (Meseta and Galicia).

Iron age

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Bronze Age

This age took place between 550 and 100 BCE. At this time the culture of the Iberians was fully developed, a group of native peoples influenced by Phoenicians and Greeks, who occupied the Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula. At the same time another great cultural area revolved around the Celts. At the beginning of the fifth century BC, the Celts, coming from Central Europe, settled in the northern peninsula, with a greater influence in the northwestern area. During all that time, the coexistence between Iberians and Celts gave rise to the emergence, in the Ebro basin, of the Celtiberians, peoples especially of Celtic influence, dedicated mainly to agricultural activities and grazing, who lived in fortified villages and were organized into tribes.

This period spanned from about 1900 BC to 800 BC. The creation of tools, weapons, and artifacts contributed to advances in agriculture, crafts, and trade. That in turn fostered the exchange of the Argar culture(Ocupating Murcia, Alicante and eastern Andalusia) and other cultures that proved the cultural enrichment of the region.

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Colonizaciones y migraciones

In the Bronze Age and the Iron Age, Indo-European migrations had a big repercussion on the peninsula mainly in the center and north of it. These will give rise to future cultures in the Iron Age