Atlas Obscura (sure it's not oscura?) is on the Extremaduran beat: Tartessus. The real deal; its last gasp in the Iron Age.
I wondered earlier this year if they'd come from the east and migrated west. That -essos is often a tell for western Anatolia. This new article is more saying, they came from the coast and migrated upland. With a lot of sacrificial hocus pocus. I suppose at least they weren't offering their own children like some people we know.
One modern annoyance is that the site is on private land, and they're in a spat with the Extremaduran government. It seems that post-Franco, devolution is a thing in modern Spain. It would be nice if the two sides could sort matters out, because Tartessus isn't just an Extremaduran or even a Spanish concern, but a concern for all Iron Age Europe.
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