Modo de vida y racionalidad de la economía campesina: A propósito de las comunidades de la Edad del Bronce de la zona septentrional de El Argar

Francisco Javier Jover Maestre, María Pastor Quiles, Ricardo E. Basso Rial and Juan Antonio López Padilla
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Francisco Javier Jover Maestre: Universidad de Alicante
María Pastor Quiles: Universidad de Alicante
Ricardo E. Basso Rial: Universidad de Alicante
Juan Antonio López Padilla: : Museo Arqueológico Provincial de Alicante

Historia Agraria. Revista de Agricultura e Historia Rural, 2020, issue 81, 125-164

Abstract: El Argar is one of the most remarkable Bronze Age archaeological cultures of the Iberian Peninsula, due to the magnitude of some of its infrastructures and the quality of its grave goods. This has led part of the research community to suggest that it may have been state-like in nature. However, not many studies reveal how this social development had to be grounded in the labour of peasant groups. Accordingly, this paper aims to more thoroughly analyse the rationale linked to the peasant economy and ways of life among the Argaric communities living in the northern areas of the El Argar social space. It also addresses the mechanisms used by the dominant groups to appropriate surplus product and labour from these peasant communities, thereby taking the first steps towards the institutionalization of social inequalities.

Keywords: Bronze Age; farming communities; surplus product; surplus labour (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N00 N53 Q10 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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