Kinship practices in the early state El Argar society from Bronze Age Iberia.

ABSTRACT: The Early Bronze Age in Europe is characterized by social and genetic transformations, starting in the early 3rd millennium BCE. New settlement and funerary structures, artifacts and techniques indicate times of change with increasing economic asymmetries and political hierarchization. Technological advances in metallurgy also played an important role, facilitating trade and exchange networks, which became tangible in higher levels of mobility and connectedness. Archeogenetic studies have revealed a substantial transformation of the genetic ancestry around this time, ultimately linked to the expansion of steppe- and forest steppe pastoralists from Eastern Europe. Evidence for emerging infectious diseases such as Yersinia pestis adds further complexity to these tumultuous and transformative

SUBMITTER: Villalba-Mouco V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9794729 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature