ABSTRACT
The meager information available on habitation and funerary contexts is one of the main impediments to studying social inequality in the Late Bronze Age of Atlantic Iberia. For decades the orthodox view of this period in Western Europe was pieced together from the hoards and the metal objects they contained. The general rule was to define a period with a considerable increase in metal production led by traders, warriors, and bronzesmiths, in which the existence of elites and social inequality was taken for granted.
