El hacha "argárica" nº 568 de Luís Monteagudometales, territorios y gentes en la Cultura del Bronce del Nororeste

Resumen

The reappearance of a small Bronze Age axe allows us to reengage with Luís Monteagudo�s work and methodology, and develop a typological reading of the piece that goes beyond the conventional. A limited and dissonant typology in the NO, but not as it the Argaric cultural sphere of the Southeast, points to possible external influences of Mediterranean origin (ca. 1800-1500 BC). Argaric axes that appear to be connected with a distinct metallurgical space around the Galician Rias Baixas, typologically diverse in a strikingly homogenous Iberian Northwest. A markedly coastal space that coincides with an area of easily accessible and abundant tin deposits, points to a possible relation with the extraction and distribution of the same, essential, besides, in the initiation of bronze metallurgy. This connection with the Argaric Culture paves the way towards the Mediterranean for the Galician tin and, as Luis Monteagudo had proposed, introduces it in the debate about its presence in the Eastern Mediterranean