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Skeleton discovered in a tomb had been wrongly identified as a man.

© Cambridge University Press La Almoloya, in Murcia, southern Spain, home to the El Argar, a society among the first to use bronze.The lavish discoveries could undermine the idea that state power is almost exclusively a product of male-dominated societies, researchers say. A trove of ornate jewelry, including a silver diadem, suggest a woman buried nearly 4,000 years ago in what is modern-day Spain was a ruler of surrounding lands who may have commanded the might of a state, according to a stu...

Certain men would have played an executive role, even though ideological legitimation as well as — perhaps — the government, lay in certain female hands

The lavish discoveries could undermine the idea that state power is almost exclusively a product of male-dominated societies, researchers say.

Share Spanish archaeologists found this silver diadem on top of the skull of a Bronze Age woman buried within palace ruins. J. A. Soldevilla/Arqueoecologia Social Mediterrània Research Group/Autonomous University of Barcelona ‘Blinged out’ female ruler may be evidence of powerful women during Bronze Age Mar. 10, 2021 , 7:01 PM As the many broken, battered bodies recovered from ancient burials can attest, the European Bronze Age was a tough time to be alive. Most historians and arc...

 E-Mail Women of the ruling class may have played an important role in the governance of El Argar, a society which flourished in the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula between 2200 and 1550 BCE, and which in the last two centuries of its existence, developed into the first state organisation of the western Mediterranean. These are the conclusions reached by researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) who led a study analysing the contents of a princely tomb (Grave 38), conta...

Researchers in Murcia find exquisite objects at women’s graves later used as sites for elite warrior burials

1k shares The comparison of the diadems points to the fact that all of them, despite being remarkably uniform, were highly exclusive pieces.  They were created in a silversmith workshop such as the one recently discovered in Tira del Lienzo, another Argaric site excavated by the same team a few years ago. The singularity of these diadems is extraordinary. They were symbolic objects made for these women, thus transforming them into emblematic subjects of the dominant ruling class, explains Cr...

A society that existed over 4,000 years ago, in modern-day Spain, may have been governed by women. A woman who was adorned with a silver crown and buried with other jewelry in the early Bronze age settlement, challenges the view that men exclusively exercised state power, archeologists say, in a new study published this week in the journal Antiquity . “The La Almoloya discoveries have revealed unexpected political dimensions of the highly...