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The end of Prehistory. From Final Bronze Age to Iron Age
During the Bronze Age (1.800-800 BC), the villages of peasants and shepherds build the first complex communal sutructures. Moreover, this is the period in which bronze metallurgy becomes increasingly widespread. In the latter part of the second millennium BC, during the Late Bronze Age, important social and technological changes take place in the so-called Urnfield Culture: the first signs of urban planning, incineration as a funeral rite and the introduction of iron. Halls VI and VII offer a display of the cultural complex in the south-east of the Iberian Peninsula referred to as the "El Argar Culture" (2.000-1.200 BC). Hall VIII is dedicated to the Late Bronze Age (1.300-800 BC), primarily in Catalonia. The ceramic urns from the necropolis of Can Missert (Terrassa) and d'Agullana (Alt Empordà) are especially noteworthy.
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