Resistencia e involución social en las comunidades de la Edad del Bronce del sureste de la Península Ibérica

Abstract

Argaric communities (EBA) have been traditionally explained as the result of a long process of increasing complexity that led to deep social asymmetries and individualized identities. This paper explores not so much what triggered this process as the phenomenon of resistance to this social and economic dynamic. If one considers the cultural changes and continuities that occurred over the course of the Bronze Age as a whole, this resistance should be considered successful. In this sense, the disappearance of individual burials, the continued reuse of collective megalithic graves, the simpler division of labour and craft specialization that characterized the Late Bronze Age, and the return to an architecture dominated by circular and oval shapes are some of the aspects that refect less complex societies and an increased emphasis on community organization and collective identities.