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A Newly Discovered Ancient Grave Site in Spain Suggests That Women May Have Been Bronze-Age Political Rulers
Scholars agree that assumptions about Bronze-Age patriarchal societies may be due for a rethink.
March 12, 2021
A silver diadem discovered at a gravesite in Spain has suggestions about female political power in the Bronze Age. Courtesy Arqueoecologia Social Mediterrània Research Group, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
An archaeological site at La Almoloya, in what is now the southeastern Spanish region of Murcia, has yielded a burial site of an upper-class couple that offers tantalizing evidence that Bronze-Age women may have held great political power.
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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 archaeologists have assumed these combative societies were led by men. But a new analysis of a richly adorned female ruler buried in a Bronze Age palace suggests women could also occupy the throne. There’s no way to know the true extent of her power, researchers note, but the find could lead others to reconsider their assumptions about the status of women throughout prehistory.