El Argar

Proper noun

El Argar

1. An archaeological site and the prehistoric centre of an early to middle Bronze Age culture, located near present-day Antas, in the province of Almería, Spain.
   • From its centre the El Argar culture spread eastwards towards Granada and northwards to Murcia and Valencia, though losing some traits on the way.1975, I. E. S. Edwards, C. J. Gadd, N. G. L. Hammond, E. Sollberger, editors, The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume II, Part 2: History of the Middle East and the Aegean Region c. 1380-1000 BC, 3rd...
   • The site of El Argar sat on a plateau 1000 x 330 ft (300x90 m) on the Rio Antas in southeastern Spain, 7 mi (12 km) from the sea.[…]El Argar was the largest and most important of some forty other fortified villages that were within a 50 mi (75 km) length along the coast.1998, Harry Mountain, The Celtic Encyclopedia, Volume 1, Universal Publishers, page 44
2. (broadly) Argaric culture, the Bronze Age culture of which said archaeological site is the type site; the people of the Argaric culture.
   • Then, in turn, a mysterious new people, the El Argar, quite suddenly took over from the Millares.2011, Gavin Menzies, The Lost Empire of Atlantis, Hachette (Swordfish), unnumbered page
   • El Argar is remarkable not only because of the rapid establishment of a new model of habitat and burial that broke with the Copper Age tradition, but also because of a combination of easily recognizable social practices and material features that were present for almost seven hundred years.2013, Vincente Lull, Rafael Micó, Cristina Rihuete Herrada, Roberto Risch, “Chapter 33: Bronze Age Iberia”, in Harry Fokkens, Anthony Harding, editors, The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age...