El Argar is an Early Bronze Age civilization developed in the southeastern end of the Iberian Peninsula.

[4] The civilization of El Argar extended to all the current-day Spanish province of Almería, north onto the central Meseta, to most of the region of Murcia and westward into the provinces of Granada and Jaén, controlling an area similar in size to modern Belgium.

Weapons are the main metallurgic product: knives, halberds, swords, spear and arrow points, and big axes with curved edges are all abundant, not just in the Argaric area, but also elsewhere in Iberia.

Discovery in 2014 of an especially rich grave and an associated building at La Almoloya have provided important details about the culture.

For instance, excavation of Grave 38 began in 2014,[7] and it contains burial goods estimated to be worth tens of thousands of dollars and included a diadem.

El Argar B ends in the fourteenth or thirteenth century BC, giving way to a less homogeneous post-Argarian culture.

There is now a widespread consensus that the emergence of El Argar can be dated at 2200 cal BC, although its end remains somewhat disputed.