Metallurgical Control And Social Power. The Bronze Age Communities Of High Guadalquivir (Spain) Moreno Onorato, María Auxiliadora Contreras Cortés, Francisco Cámara Serrano, Juan Antonio Simón García, José Luis Edad del bronce Bronze age Alto Guadalquivir Upper Guadalquivir Valley Archaeometallurgy Arqueometalurgia Minería Mining Jerarquización social Social Hierarchization This research project is centered on lbe archaeometallurgic process lbat was developed by Bronze Age communities in tbe High Guadalquivir (Spain). Copper, bronze and silver mining and metallurgic transformations constitute one of tbe bases of tbe historie develapment of tbese communities.· Such activity implies tbe use of more complex technologies and lbe control of tbe distribution of tbese new products by tbe aristoeratic groups. The fieldwork carried out in lbe site of Peilalosa (Bailos de la Encina, provinee of Jaen, Spain) has produced a great deal of archaeologieal n';mains showing tbe complexity of tbe metallurgical process in Recent Prehistory. Excavations at Peilalosa have allowed us to carry out archaeometaJlurgical research in relation to: 1. The sequence ofmelallurgical aetivity. 2. The ascription ofthis activity and its different phases to different vilJage areas. 3. Use of different stone raw materials to creale lbe necessary tools for lbe metallurgical process and differenl minerals (malachile, azurile, galena, etc.) to be fused. 4. General aecess to metallurgieal pracesses (found in al! tbe dwellings) and tbeir praduels (presenl in a great number of tombs, especially in relation to daggers and swords). 5. Differenees in tbe size of tbe weapons located in tbe differenl lombs. 6. Restricted access to non-copper minerals and, overall, lo items made witb preciaus metals. 2021-03-22T13:30:33Z 2021-03-22T13:30:33Z 2003 book part MORENO ONORATO, A., CONTRERAS CORTÉS, F., CÁMARA SERRANO, J.A., SIMÓN GARCÍA, J.L. (2003): Metallurgical Control And Social Power. The Bronze Age Communities Of High Guadalquivir (Spain), Archaeometallurgy in Europe 2003 (Milán, 24-26 Septiembre 2003), Proceedings. Vol. 1. Associazione Italiana di Metallurgia/Fondazione Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnología “Leonardo da Vinci”/Archeologia Viva, Milano, pp. 625-634. 88-85298-50-8 http://hdl.handle.net/10481/67455 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/es/ open access Atribución-SinDerivadas 3.0 España Fondazione Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnología “Leonardo da Vinci”