{"id":13787,"date":"2011-02-13T13:16:44","date_gmt":"2011-02-13T13:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=13787"},"modified":"2026-05-07T18:16:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:16:04","slug":"los-millares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/los-millares\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Millares"},"content":{"rendered":"

L<\/strong>os Millares <\/strong>is the name given to a culture situated in Andalusia, Spain that flourished during the Copper Age and lasted until around 1800 BC, before the introduction of bronze. It was \"\"<\/a>discovered at the end of the 19th<\/sup> century and excavation continues today. The step pyramid of Monte d\u2019Accoddi on Sardinia<\/a> has been compared to the Los Millares architecture. It is also claimed that Los Millares, along with other Iberian sites were Minoan<\/a> colonies(a<\/sup>)<\/sup> dating from the late 4th<\/sup> millennium BC. Inevitably, some commentators have tried to suggest a link with Atlantis, based on the existence there of a series of three concentric battlements.<\/p>\n

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Helmut Tributsch<\/a> was one such advocate of Los Millares as Atlantis, who outlines his reasons in an article(e<\/sup>)<\/sup> on the A<\/em>tlantisforschung<\/em><\/a> website.<\/p>\n

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However, Los Millares fails to match Plato\u2019s description on a number of counts; it\u2019s not an island, it\u2019s not submerged, it had no writing, etc. It might be worth mentioning that Los Millares, as the location of Atlantis, does not fit with the assumption that the Pillars of Heracles were situated at Gibraltar, as Los Millares is not \u2018beyond\u2019 the Pillars.<\/p>\n

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Sheppard Baird<\/a>, in a paper on the Sea Peoples<\/a>(b)<\/span><\/sup>, maintains that the Los Millares culture lasted until 2200 BC and was succeeded by the Argaric, named after the el Argar site. He also claims the Argaric watchtowers, known as \u2018motillas\u2019 inspired the development of the \u2018nuraghi<\/a>\u2019 on Sardinia.<\/p>\n

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In a 2022 article on the Ancient Origins<\/em> website by historian Natalia Klimczak, she offers her view of the importance copper played in the success of the Los Millares civilisation(a)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

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Additional information is to be found on the ancient-wisdom.com<\/em> website(c)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

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(a)<\/sup>The Early Minoan Colonization of Spain (archive.org)<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

(b)<\/sup> The Origin of the Sea Peoples (archive.org)<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

(c)<\/sup> <\/span>http:\/\/www.ancient-wisdom.com\/spainlosmillares.htm<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

(d)<\/sup><\/span> https:\/\/www.ancient-origins.net\/ancient-places-europe\/lost-iberian-civilization-los-millares-was-copper-secret-its-success-008011<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

(e)<\/sup> <\/span> Los Millares – an Atlantic metropolis in the land of Gadeiros \u2013 Atlantisforschung.de (atlantisforschung-de.translate.goog)<\/a>
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Los Millares is the name given to a culture situated in Andalusia, Spain that flourished during the Copper Age and lasted until around 1800 BC, before the introduction of bronze. It was discovered at the end of the 19th century and excavation continues today. The step pyramid of Monte d\u2019Accoddi on Sardinia has been compared […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[341,687,3853,1692,48,100,60,5232],"class_list":["post-13787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-andalusia","tag-los-millares","tag-monte-daccoddi","tag-nuraghi","tag-pillars-of-heracles","tag-sardinia","tag-sea-peoples","tag-sheppard-baird"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13787"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67380,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13787\/revisions\/67380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}