Forged spaces in El Argar. The central building of Tira del Lienzo (Totana, Murcia).

Recent excavations at the Argaric site of Tira del Lienzo, located in the Guadalentín plain and only 7 km from the urban settlement of La Bastida, have uncovered a unique architectural complex, specialised in production and administrative management. This work constitutes an advance of the study that is currently being carried out on the site. In the central building that crowns the hill, a series of artefacts were documented.
macrolithic, whose morphotechnical and functional study links them to forging and, more specifically, to the forging and polishing/sharpening of native silver sheets. Silver ornaments were used as elements of distinction by the Argaric ruling class, so that the Tira del Lienzo workshop raises new questions about the role of metals in production relations during the first half of the 2nd millennium BC in the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula.