Surveying El Argar, Almeria, Spain: prehistoric settlement patterns and social processes Legarra Herrero, Borja Murillo Barroso, María de las Mercedes Lackinger, Aaron Gámiz Caro, Jesús Vico Triguero, Laura Navero Rosales, Mercedes Pérez-L'Huillier, Daniel Ibarz Navarro, Sergio Mediterranean Europe Iberia Neolithic An intensive archaeological surface survey of the El Argar site and its hinterland has provided new information for the discussion of early sociopolitical complexity in the western Mediterranean. This article presents the preliminary interpretation of a long-term settlement pattern, particularly in the Bronze Age. 2025-09-22T09:08:55Z 2025-09-22T09:08:55Z 2025-09 journal article Legarra Herrero, B., Murillo-Barroso, M., Lackinger, A., Gámiz Caro, J., Vico Triguero, L., Navero Rosales, M., Pérez L’Huillier, D., & Ibarz Navarro, S. (2025). Surveying El Argar, Almeria, Spain: prehistoric settlement patterns and social processes. Antiquity, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2025.10181 https://hdl.handle.net/10481/106522 10.15184/aqy.2025.10181 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ open access Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 4.0 Internacional Cambridge University Press