De la caverna al lugar fortificado: una mirada a la edad del bronce en el territorio Astur-Cantábro
Journal: Repositori UJI (Universitat Jaume I)
Year: 2011

Without a clearly materialized prior Copper Age, the evolution and peculiarities of the Bronze Age in Asturias and Cantabria is marked by its peripheral location and the weight of the tumultuous terrain of a territory resting between the mountains and the ocean. A sparsely dispersed, barely nucleated population has determined its scant archaeological visibility, as substantiated in many cases by sketchy evidence of ancient cave habitats. Copper metallurgy constitutes the essential channel for in