RT Book, Section T1 Social inequality, fortified settlements and enclosures in the Southern Iberian Chalcolithic (3rd Millennium BC). An open discussion A1 Márquez-Romero, José Enrique A1 Jiménez-Jáimez, Víctor José A2 Kunst, Michael A2 Steiniger, Daniel K1 Restos arqueológicos prehistóricos K1 Edad del cobre AB Amongst many Mediterranean archaeologists the ideathat the Iberian Peninsula, and especially its southernmost regions, witnessed the rise and development ofsome of the earliest complex communities in WesternEuropean Late Prehistory has become a commonplace.In particular, the Iberian Chalcolithic is predominantlyconsidered a paradigm of early social inequality, a starting point for the emergence of state societies and thedecline of kinship as the basis for most human socialrelationships. This perception is grounded on the scientific results of several research projects undertaken inthe last three decades of the 20th century. PB Deutsches Archäologisches Institut/Harrassowitz SN 978-3-447-11579-7 YR 2021 FD 2021 LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/38986 UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/38986 LA eng NO Márquez-Romero, J. E., & Jiménez-Jáimez, V. (2021). Social inequality, fortified settlements and enclosures in the Southern Iberian Chalcolithic (3rd Millennium BC). An open discussion. En M. Kunst & D. Steiniger (Eds.), Settlement structures and metallurgy: The relations between Italy and the Iberian Peninsula in the Early Chalcolithic. Papers of an international conference held in Rome, Museo Nazionale Romano – Palazzo Massimo, 6–7 October 2011 (pp. 193-208). Deutsches Archäologisches Institut/Harrassowitz. https://doi.org/10.34780/9793-3mb9 NO The Author shall obtain a digital version of his work 0 years after publication, should he havetransferred the corresponding rights for digital editions to the DAI. From such date the Author is freemake available a copy of this digital version on a public-access non-profit academic server withoutany temporal restrictions. DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga RD 19 ene 2026