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Journal Article 
The smelting quarter of Valencina de la Concepcion (Seville, Spain): the specialised copper industry in a political centre of the Guadalquivir Valley during the Third millennium BC (2750-2500 BC) 
Nocete, F; Queipo, G; Saez, R; Nieto, JM; Inacio, N; Bayona, MR; Peramo, A; Vargas, JM; Cruz-Aunon, R; Gil-Ibarguchi, JI; Santos, JF 
2008 
Yes 
Journal of Archaeological Science
ISSN: 0305-4403
EISSN: 1095-9238 
35 
3 
717-732 
English 
The first specialized copper industry of the Iberian Peninsula was developed at the start of the Third millennium BC with the appearance of mining-metallurgical settlements in its main mining district (the Pyrite Belt of the south-western). Between 2750 and 2500 BC, however, and right at the centre of the Guadalquivir Valley, the great farming settlements that ranked the territory developed a new level of metallurgic intensification with the creation of the first industrial quarters. As a way of explaining this new situation, we present the results of the systematic research (microspatial analysis; radiocarbon dating; petrologic, geochemical, metallographic and isotopic study of minerals, slag and products,...) carried out in one of them, the one developed in the main and largest political centre of the Guadalquivir Valley during the first half of the Third millennium BC: Valencina de la Concepcion (Seville, Spain). (C) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. 
Spain; Third Millennium BC; copper metallurgy; smelting quarter; furnaces; slags; lead isotopes; metallographic and geochemical study; iberian pyrite belt; cabezo jure; metallurgy; peninsula