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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 study published today in the journal Antiquity. The discoveries raise new questions about the role of ...

'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 archaeologists have assumed these combative societies were led by men. But a new analysis of a richly a...