Copper workers from the Eastern Mediterranean establish…

Copper workers from the Eastern Mediterranean establish an Iberian colony before 3000 at the site of Los Millares, situated on a promontory above the Andarax River in southeast Spain.

The site consists of circular and rectangular huts inside an enclosure wall, four stone-built circular forts situated nearby, and a cemetery of about eighty burials of passage-grave type; some set within beehive-shaped stone structures called tholos tombs, with porthole slabs. (The site, rich in copper tools and painted pottery, is regarded as the type-site for the Millaran culture of the Chalcolithic Age).

Los Millares participates in the continental trends of Megalithism and the Beaker culture.

Analysis of occupation material and grave goods from the seventy tholos tombs has led archaeologists to suggest that the people who lived at Los Millares were part of a stratified, unequal society often at war with its neighbors.