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Agricultural production and social change in the Bronze Age of southeast Spain: the Gatas Project

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

P. V. Castro ,
R. W. Chapman ,
S. Gili ,
V. Lull ,
R. Micó ,
C. Rihuete ,
R. Risch  and
M. E. Sanahuja
P. V. Castro
Affiliation:
Departamento Antropología Social i Prehistoria, Facultat de Lletres, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallés, Barcelona, Spain MontgatBarrakis.es
R. W. Chapman
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 2AH, England. r.w.chapman@reading.ac.uk
S. Gili
Affiliation:
Departamento Antropología Social i Prehistoria, Facultat de Lletres, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallés, Barcelona, Spain MontgatBarrakis.es
V. Lull
Affiliation:
Departamento Antropología Social i Prehistoria, Facultat de Lletres, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallés, Barcelona, Spain MontgatBarrakis.es
R. Micó
Affiliation:
Departamento Antropología Social i Prehistoria, Facultat de Lletres, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallés, Barcelona, Spain MontgatBarrakis.es
C. Rihuete
Affiliation:
Departamento Antropología Social i Prehistoria, Facultat de Lletres, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallés, Barcelona, Spain MontgatBarrakis.es
R. Risch
Affiliation:
Departamento Antropología Social i Prehistoria, Facultat de Lletres, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallés, Barcelona, Spain MontgatBarrakis.es
M. E. Sanahuja
Affiliation:
Departamento Antropología Social i Prehistoria, Facultat de Lletres, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallés, Barcelona, Spain MontgatBarrakis.es
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Abstract

This paper presents new data on agricultural production, the palaeoenvironment and social change during the Bronze Age of southeast Spain. The authors argue against the inference of irrigation as the basis for agriculture and relate the emergence of cereal monoculture to the extraction of surplus and the exploitation of human labour.

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southeast SpainBronze Ageagricultural productionirrigationsocial changeGatas
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Antiquity , Volume 73 , Issue 282 , December 1999 , pp. 846 - 856
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1999

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