Colonial Encounters in Ancient Iberia

Ex Occidente Lux: A Preface

Michael Dietler and Carolina López-Ruiz

Part I          Theoretical Issues and Frameworks

1          Colonial Encounters in Iberia and the Western Mediterranean: An Exploratory Framework

            Michael Dietler

2          Colonial Relations and Social Change in Iberia (Seventh to Third Centuries BC)

            Joan Sanmartí

Part II        New Perspectives on Phoenician and Greek Ventures on the Mediterranean and Atlantic Coasts

3          Colonial Contacts and Protohistoric Indigenous Urbanism on the Mediterranean Coast of the Iberian Peninsula

            Maria Carme Belarte

4          Phoenician Colonization on the Atlantic Coast of the Iberian Peninsula

            Ana Margarida Arruda

5          Greeks and the Iberian Peninsula: Forms of Exchange and Settlements

            Pierre Rouillard

Part III       Plant Resources, Agrarian Practices, and the Colonial Political Economy

6          Botanical and Archaeological Dimensions of the Colonial Encounter

            Ramon Buxó

7          Lumbermen and Shipwrights: Phoenicians on the Mediterranean Coast of Southern Spain

            Brigitte Treumann

Part IV       The Question of Tartessos: A Debate Reframed

8          Phoenicians in Tartessos

            María Belén Deamos

9          Precolonization and Colonization in the Interior of Tartessos

            Sebastián Celestino Pérez

Part V        Interrogating Colonial Texts and Imagined Landscapes

10        Tarshish and Tartessos Revisited: Textual Problems and Historical Implications

            Carolina López-Ruiz

11        Iberia in the Greek Geographical Imagination

            Javier Gómez Espelosín

Colonial Encounters in Ancient Iberia: A Coda

Michael Dietler and Carolina López-Ruiz

List of Contributors

Index