Queen? Queen consort? Just a rich woman with a yearning to be a "royal?" Or a female leader of her clan, buried with honors and her mate buried with her? What's your guess?
From The New York Times (online)
Bronze Age Tomb in Spain Hints Women Helped Govern
By Jennifer Pinkowski
March 11, 2021
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Arqueoecologia Social Mediterrània Research Group, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
About 3,700 years ago, a man and a woman were buried together in the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula. Their tomb was an ovoid jar beneath the floor of a grand hall in an expansive hilltop complex known as La Almoloya, in what is now Murcia, Spain. It’s one of many archaeological sites associated with the El Argar culture of the Early Bronze Age that controlled an area about the size of Belgium from 2200 B.C. to 1500 B.C.
Judging by the 29 high-value objects in the tomb, described Thursday in the journal Antiquity, the couple appear to have been members of the Argaric upper class. And the woman may have been the more important of the two, raising questions for archaeologists about who wielded power among the Argarics, and adding more evidence to a debate about the role of women in prehistoric Europe.
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