18 May 2023

"From the Segura to the Carpathians. The first kingdoms of prehistoric Europe".

Place: MARQ Assembly Hall. 6:30 p.m.

Presentations:

18:30- 19:00 h

What came from the East. An exceptional Argaric burial site of San Antón de Orihuela

What came from the East. An exceptional Argaric burial at San Antón de Orihuela

Speakers: Juan A. López, Fco. Javier Jover, María Pastor y Ricardo Basso

MARQ-Museo Arqueológico de Alicante and University of Alicante

19:00 -19:45 h

"Here (almost) all that glitters is gold.' The Middle Bronze Age Otomani-Füzesabony Culture in the Carpathian Basin

"Here (almost) everything that glitters is gold". The Otomani-Füzesabony culture and the Middle Bronze Age in the Carpathian Basin

Rapporteur: János Dani

Déri Museum in Debrecen (Hungary)

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The day of conferences will be accompanied by the opening of the exhibition "The Princess of the Carpathians", a small exhibition in the entrance hall of the museum, in which for the first time the extraordinary gold and silver trousseau discovered in 1904 at the Bronze Age site of San Antón, in Orihuela (Alicante), will be exhibited together. Other pieces of pottery, metal and bone, also belonging to the deposits of the Provincial Archaeological Museum, will complete the group of objects found in the grave of a young woman buried just over 3,500 years ago. Of all of them, the exceptional set of tiny perforated gold cones stands out, unique pieces in the prehistoric goldsmithing of the Iberian Peninsula, whose design and techniques of elaboration take us back to the Bronze Age cultures of the Carpathian Basin, more than 2000 kilometres away, where they often adorned the dresses of women of the highest social rank.