Violence in the Central Iberian Peninsula during the Bronze Age: A Possible Prehistoric Homicide Jiménez Brobeil, Sylvia Alejandra Roca, M. G. Laffranchi, Zita Nájera Colino, Trinidad Molina González, Fernando Bronze age Conflict Interpersonal violence This work was supported by the Ministry of Science and Innovation, the Spanish Government (grant no. HAR2010-18745) and Culture Department of the Castilla-La Mancha Regional Government. One of the most interesting sites of the Bronze Age in the central area of the Iberian Peninsula is La Motilla del Azuer (Daimiel, Ciudad Real), dated between 2200 and 1350 BC . The main objective of this study was to investigate interpersonal violence in this site and to report an uncommon case of violent death. No traumatic injury was detected in any child, and men and women significantly differed in the frequency of traumas. More traumatisms were found in men from the earlier stages of occupation, including a young man with at least three blunt force traumas and 26 sharp force traumas. The archaeological findings and trauma patterns in the skeletons of the 65 individuals studied suggest a relatively intense level of exposure to violence for adult men in the earlier stages of occupation of this settlemen 2026-02-11T08:01:11Z 2026-02-11T08:01:11Z 2014 journal article Jiménez Brobeil, Sylvia Alejandra et al. Violence in the Central Iberian Peninsula during the Bronze Age: A Possible Prehistoric Homicide. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 24 (4), 649-659. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2251 https://hdl.handle.net/10481/110844 10.1002/oa.2251 eng open access Wiley