How Bronze Age villagers in Spain resisted the El Argar state, and what it shows about power in Europe and the Mediterranean

Around 2200 BCE, a society called El Argar took shape in southeastern Spain. Over the next 450 years, El Argar grew from a core of roughly 2,100 square miles to about 13,100 square miles. Researchers wanted to know how the people living to the north dealt with such a neighbor...

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