Notas sobre la Edad del Bronce en El Andévalo (Huelva, España)

Abstract

This paper reports on a new Bronze Age settlements located in the area of El Andevalo (Huelva, Spain). Furthermore, it studied a differentiation in the delimitation of this territory, areas that are within the South Portuguese geological zone (SW Iberia), where there are abundant mineral resources (Iberian Pyrite Belt) and those others which belong to the Unit Pulo do Lobo (Pulo do Lobo Formation), where there are not any mining resources. In the first one predominates an habitat that is concentrated in fortified settlements, accompanied of large enclosures fortified without evidence of habitat, in sectors where the mineralizations rich in copper carbonates abundant. In the second area, without any mining evidence, the settlement continues being in heights, but there are not signals of fortifications, and according to their material culture they are related to settlements of the Late Bronze Age of the of the Alentejo (Portugal).