Prendendo spunto da una presunta crisi che nel V secolo a.C. interessa Cartagine e i suoi domini,... more Prendendo spunto da una presunta crisi che nel V secolo a.C. interessa Cartagine e i suoi domini, gli Autori del presente volume indagano un momento di trasformazioni e profondi cambiamenti all’interno del mondo fenicio e punico di Occidente. I trentuno contributi raccolti – che spaziano dalla Sicilia al Nord Africa, dalla Sardegna all’Andalusia Occidentale – tracciano con efficacia un quadro analitico di una fase nella quale Cartagine non solo presenta poche evidenze di crisi, ma al contrario si rivela impegnata nel promuovere un intenso sforzo politico ed economico che la porterà a primeggiare nel Mediterraneo nel corso dei secoli successivi sino all’inevitabile e devastante conflitto con la potenza romana. Nell’ambito di queste indagini la Sardegna riveste un ruolo fondamentale, motivato non solo dalla sua posizione centrale nel Mediterraneo occidentale, strategica per la politica espansionistica di Cartagine, ma anche da una pluralità di studi di carattere storico-archeologico in grado di modificare in modo significativo il quadro di conoscenze sin qui acquisito sull’impatto cartaginese in ampi settori dell’isola. Fra questi settori figura sicuramente il Sulcis, dove le indagini condotte a Sulky, Monte Sirai, Nuraghe Sirai e Pani Loriga hanno radicalmente modificato le conoscenze sul V secolo in Sardegna – e non solo – come dimostrano i contributi incentrati su questo areale.
Sometime in 2009, the make-up of the world population changed fundamentally, as the number of peo... more Sometime in 2009, the make-up of the world population changed fundamentally, as the number of people living in cities surpassed that of rural residents for the first time. Today, already some 54% of the world’s inhabitants live in urban areas, and their numbers are set to reach 66% by 2050. Since only some 14% lived urban lives at the start of the 20th century, it is as evident as it is impressive how rapidly the shift from rural to urban settlement has occurred. These figures are all the more remarkable, if we realize that the first urban settlements appeared in the Near East in the 4th millennium BCE, and that the distinction between urban and rural has been part of societies across the globe ever since.
Since the overwhelming majority of the pre-modern world population has long lived rural lifestyles, it is therefore no exaggeration to state that in order to understand ancient societies, it is imperative to know the rural areas around and between cities – especially as pre-modern economies were largely driven by rural production. Archaeologists have made great strides to do just that since regional analysis and surveys were developed in the 1960s, and we have learnt a great deal about rural and regional settlement patterns across the world. Modern techniques such as GIS, geophysics and remote sensing have given regional research renewed impetus in recent decades.
While we have thus gained an insight in where people lived outside cities, there remain yet myriad aspects of rural life that have only sparingly been explored. Rural sanctuaries may serve as one example, as more attention has usually been given to ritual structures in the countryside, but there has been much less interest in how such buildings and places were part of rural communities and their lives. Another aspect that touches on the heart of the rural world are agrarian practices: while we know where rural inhabitants lived, we are much less informed about how land was used, and how crops were grown, processed and distributed. Research on health and diet has also begun to reveal striking contrasts and variations between rural and urban lifeways and wellbeing.
This volume seeks to look beyond rural settlement patterns to explore the lives and works of rural communities across the world and over time: agrarian production is an important aspect, but so are rural markets and burial traditions. Equally important are questions of rural household organization, tenancy, ownership, and cash-crops, while health, wellbeing and diet can offer insights into the risks and opportunities for rural communities.
Questo volume nasce dalla giornata di studi dedicata a "Materiali e contesti nell’età del Ferro s... more Questo volume nasce dalla giornata di studi dedicata a "Materiali e contesti nell’età del Ferro sarda” organizzata da Peter van Dommelen, Andrea Roppa (allora dell’Università di Glasgow) e Alfonso Stiglitz (Museo Civico di San Vero Milis) e svolta con successo il 25 maggio 2012 presso il Museo Civico di San Vero Milis (Oristano). L'obiettivo della giornata di studi sanverese è stato quindi di rimarginare la scollatura esistente fra materiali e contesti, e stimolare l’adozione di un approccio integrato all’indagine degli esiti materiali delle interazioni, dei contesti e delle pratiche sociali ad essi sottese, nella loro evoluzione nel corso dell’età del Ferro così come percepibili su base archeologica e questa pubblicazione degli Atti della Giornata di Studio sanverese include tutti i contributi realizzati senza distinguere fra l’originale modo di presentazione.
As postcolonial theories have gradually but persistently gained more prominence in archaeology ov... more As postcolonial theories have gradually but persistently gained more prominence in archaeology over the last decade or so, most attention has been directed towards critiques of contemporary academic and, to a lesser extent, popular representations of past colonial contexts. Much less effort has been spent on alternative and fresh interpretations of the colonial contexts in the past themselves. In this issue, however, the focus is firmly on ‘doing archaeology’ along postcolonial lines. That means either novel interpretations and perspectives on colonial situations in the past, whether distant or less so, or reflections on fieldwork and research in contemporary postcolonial contexts. In both cases, the underlying assumption is that postcolonial theories offer exciting perspectives for doing archaeology differently and it is the aim of this issue to explore these differences, both past and present.
'Material Connections' eschews outdated theory, tainted by colonialist attitudes, and develops a ... more 'Material Connections' eschews outdated theory, tainted by colonialist attitudes, and develops a new cultural and historical understanding of how factors such as mobility, materiality, conflict and co-presence impacted on the formation of identity in the ancient Mediterranean. Fighting against ‘hyper-specialisation’ within the subject area, it explores the multiple ways that material culture was used to establish, maintain and alter identities, especially during periods of transition, culture encounter and change. A new perspective is adopted, one that perceives the use of material culture by prehistoric and historic Mediterranean peoples in formulating and changing their identities. It considers how objects and social identities are entangled in various cultural encounters and interconnections.
The movement of people as well as objects has always stood at the heart of attempts to understand the courses and process of human history. The Mediterranean offers a wealth of such information and Material Connections, expanding on this base, offers a dynamic, new subject of enquiry – the social identify of prehistoric and historic Mediterranean people – and considers how migration, colonial encounters, and connectivity or insularity influence social identities. The volume includes a series of innovative, closely related case studies that examine the contacts amongst various Mediterranean islands – Sardinia, Corsica, Sicily, Crete, Cyprus, the Balearics – and the nearby shores of Italy, Greece, North Africa, Spain and the Levant to explore the social and cultural impact of migratory, colonial and exchange encounters. Material Connections forges a new path in understanding the material culture of the Mediterranean and will be essential for those wishing to develop their understanding of material culture and identity in the Mediterranean.
Contents 1 Material connections: mobility, materiality and Mediterranean identities A. Bernard Knapp and Peter van Dommelen (Glasgow) 2 Classifying an oxymoron. On black boxes, materiality and identity in the scientific representation of the Mediterranean Carlos Cañete (Malaga, Spain) 3 Reproducing difference: mimesis and colonialism in Roman Hispania Alicia Jiménez (London, Glasgow) 4 From colonisation to habitation: early cultural adaptations in the Balearic Bronze Age Damià Ramis (Palma de Mallorca, Mallorca, Spain) 5 Social identities, materiality and connectivity in Early Bronze Age Crete Marina Gkiasta (Rethymnon, Crete, Greece) 6 Foreign materials, islander mobility and elite identity in Late Bronze Age Sardinia Anthony Russell (Glasgow) 7 Negotiating island interactions: Cyprus, the Aegean and the Levant in the Late Bronze to Early Iron Ages Sarah Janes (Glasgow) 8 Entangled identities on Iron Age Sardinia? Jeremy Hayne (Glasgow) 9 Iron, connectivity and local identities in the Iron Age to Classical Mediterranean Maria Kostoglou (Glasgow) 10 Mobility, materiality and identities in Iron Age east Iberia: on the appropriation of material culture and the question of judgement Jaime Vives-Ferrándiz (Valenica, Spain) 11 Trading settlements and the materiality of wine consumption in the north Tyrrhenian Sea region Corinna Riva (London) 12 Concluding thoughts Michael Rowlands (London)
The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean offers new insights into the ma... more The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean offers new insights into the material and social practices of many different Mediterranean peoples during the Bronze and Iron Ages, presenting in particular those features that both connect and distinguish them. Contributors discuss in depth a range of topics that motivate and structure Mediterranean archaeology today, including insularity and connectivity; mobility, migration, and colonization; hybridization and cultural encounters; materiality, memory, and identity; community and household; life and death; and ritual and ideology. The volume's broad coverage of different approaches and contemporary archaeological practices will help practitioners of Mediterranean archaeology to move the subject forward in new and dynamic ways. Together, the essays in this volume shed new light on the people, ideas, and materials that make up the world of Mediterranean archaeology today, beyond the borders that separate Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.
Migration has long been a major topic in archaeology and as long as culture history framed archae... more Migration has long been a major topic in archaeology and as long as culture history framed archaeological understanding of material culture, migrations have been seen as the stuff that (pre)history was made of. As New, processual and post-processual perspectives have steered attention elsewhere in more recent decades, migration has rapidly dropped off the archaeological agendas.
A lack of interest does not mean, however, that people in the past did not migrate and scientific advances in physical anthropology have forced the issue back on the agenda. The case of the so-called ‘Lady of York’ who probably hailed from North Africa, is an evident case in point. In other fields, like the ancient Mediterranean or the post-medieval northern and central Atlantic, the combined archaeological and literary evidence leaves little doubt about large-scale and sustained migrations, voluntary and forcibly alike.
The question is therefore not so much whether people migrated – they clearly did.
The aim of this issue is accordingly to look beyond the mere observation of large-scale movements or migrant networks and to examine not only the reasons that motivated people to migrate but also the consequences for both migrants and their host societies. This issue is therefore not so much about finding ‘hard evidence’ of actual migrants and migrations, although that is certainly part of the equation, but it rather represents an endeavour to explore the diversity and complexity of mobility and migration in the past, both recent and distant, and to investigate the many dimensions of these broad processes. The emphasis of the issue thus falls on local actors, practices, contexts and networks that sustained migrations and enabled mobility of, within and between communities in order to highlight the social and economic dimensions of migration and mobility.
This book offers the first comprehensive overview of rural settlement in the Punic world by bring... more This book offers the first comprehensive overview of rural settlement in the Punic world by bringing together and comparing evidence from across the western Mediterranean. A substantial part of the volume is taken up by a detailed discussion of the literary and archaeological evidence for Punic rural settlement in Sardinia, Sicily, Ibiza, Andalusia and North Africa. It also explores the multiple connections between rural settlement, agrarian organisation and regional colonial situations in order to offer new insights in Carthaginian colonialism and local Punic rural settlement, and their role in the wider Mediterranean context.
By publishing all this evidence and new interpretations in English, this book intends to draw attention to Punic archaeology in general and to these rural studies in particular and to situate them in the wider Mediterranean context of both classical antiquity and Mediterranean archaeology.
ISBN 9781845532703. xi + 284 pages. 82 figures and 4 tables.
The chapter discusses the developments of Sardinian archeology, phases of urban settlements and r... more The chapter discusses the developments of Sardinian archeology, phases of urban settlements and rural sites investigations. Moreover it provides an evaluation of the evidence that highlights the most salient features of Punic rural studies in Sardinia.
This chapter provides a comparative discussion of Punic rural settlement in its wider western Med... more This chapter provides a comparative discussion of Punic rural settlement in its wider western Mediterranean context. It discusses similarities and differences in the archaeological evidence and settlement patterns of the Punic regions. Moreover, it considers the agrarian background of rural settlement in order to gain an insight into the agrarian and regional organisation of the rural landscapes. The involvement of Carthaginian colonial expansion in these processes is further analyzed, as well as the social realities of peasant life and agrarian production in the Punic world.
... Colonial constructs: Colonialism and archaeology in the Mediterranean: Colonialism and archae... more ... Colonial constructs: Colonialism and archaeology in the Mediterranean: Colonialism and archaeology in the Mediterranean. Autores: Peter van Dommelen; Localización: World archaeology, ISSN 0043-8243, Vol. 28, Nº 3, 1997 , págs. 305-323. Fundación Dialnet. ...
Miguel John Versluys offers a richly textured essay in an attempt to resuscitate the concept of R... more Miguel John Versluys offers a richly textured essay in an attempt to resuscitate the concept of Romanization, which he has found to have been nearly flogged to death, to paraphrase an oft-quoted characterization of the Romanization debate in recent years. To be more precise, he argues that certain quarters of Romanist academia have ‘ganged up’ on the concept over the last decade or so and that others – the implicitly silent majority – have begun to stage a comeback in recent years. Versluys's self-imposed mission is to shore up the Roman resurgence with freshly cut intellectual joists.
Prendendo spunto da una presunta crisi che nel V secolo a.C. interessa Cartagine e i suoi domini,... more Prendendo spunto da una presunta crisi che nel V secolo a.C. interessa Cartagine e i suoi domini, gli Autori del presente volume indagano un momento di trasformazioni e profondi cambiamenti all’interno del mondo fenicio e punico di Occidente. I trentuno contributi raccolti – che spaziano dalla Sicilia al Nord Africa, dalla Sardegna all’Andalusia Occidentale – tracciano con efficacia un quadro analitico di una fase nella quale Cartagine non solo presenta poche evidenze di crisi, ma al contrario si rivela impegnata nel promuovere un intenso sforzo politico ed economico che la porterà a primeggiare nel Mediterraneo nel corso dei secoli successivi sino all’inevitabile e devastante conflitto con la potenza romana. Nell’ambito di queste indagini la Sardegna riveste un ruolo fondamentale, motivato non solo dalla sua posizione centrale nel Mediterraneo occidentale, strategica per la politica espansionistica di Cartagine, ma anche da una pluralità di studi di carattere storico-archeologico in grado di modificare in modo significativo il quadro di conoscenze sin qui acquisito sull’impatto cartaginese in ampi settori dell’isola. Fra questi settori figura sicuramente il Sulcis, dove le indagini condotte a Sulky, Monte Sirai, Nuraghe Sirai e Pani Loriga hanno radicalmente modificato le conoscenze sul V secolo in Sardegna – e non solo – come dimostrano i contributi incentrati su questo areale.
Sometime in 2009, the make-up of the world population changed fundamentally, as the number of peo... more Sometime in 2009, the make-up of the world population changed fundamentally, as the number of people living in cities surpassed that of rural residents for the first time. Today, already some 54% of the world’s inhabitants live in urban areas, and their numbers are set to reach 66% by 2050. Since only some 14% lived urban lives at the start of the 20th century, it is as evident as it is impressive how rapidly the shift from rural to urban settlement has occurred. These figures are all the more remarkable, if we realize that the first urban settlements appeared in the Near East in the 4th millennium BCE, and that the distinction between urban and rural has been part of societies across the globe ever since.
Since the overwhelming majority of the pre-modern world population has long lived rural lifestyles, it is therefore no exaggeration to state that in order to understand ancient societies, it is imperative to know the rural areas around and between cities – especially as pre-modern economies were largely driven by rural production. Archaeologists have made great strides to do just that since regional analysis and surveys were developed in the 1960s, and we have learnt a great deal about rural and regional settlement patterns across the world. Modern techniques such as GIS, geophysics and remote sensing have given regional research renewed impetus in recent decades.
While we have thus gained an insight in where people lived outside cities, there remain yet myriad aspects of rural life that have only sparingly been explored. Rural sanctuaries may serve as one example, as more attention has usually been given to ritual structures in the countryside, but there has been much less interest in how such buildings and places were part of rural communities and their lives. Another aspect that touches on the heart of the rural world are agrarian practices: while we know where rural inhabitants lived, we are much less informed about how land was used, and how crops were grown, processed and distributed. Research on health and diet has also begun to reveal striking contrasts and variations between rural and urban lifeways and wellbeing.
This volume seeks to look beyond rural settlement patterns to explore the lives and works of rural communities across the world and over time: agrarian production is an important aspect, but so are rural markets and burial traditions. Equally important are questions of rural household organization, tenancy, ownership, and cash-crops, while health, wellbeing and diet can offer insights into the risks and opportunities for rural communities.
Questo volume nasce dalla giornata di studi dedicata a "Materiali e contesti nell’età del Ferro s... more Questo volume nasce dalla giornata di studi dedicata a "Materiali e contesti nell’età del Ferro sarda” organizzata da Peter van Dommelen, Andrea Roppa (allora dell’Università di Glasgow) e Alfonso Stiglitz (Museo Civico di San Vero Milis) e svolta con successo il 25 maggio 2012 presso il Museo Civico di San Vero Milis (Oristano). L'obiettivo della giornata di studi sanverese è stato quindi di rimarginare la scollatura esistente fra materiali e contesti, e stimolare l’adozione di un approccio integrato all’indagine degli esiti materiali delle interazioni, dei contesti e delle pratiche sociali ad essi sottese, nella loro evoluzione nel corso dell’età del Ferro così come percepibili su base archeologica e questa pubblicazione degli Atti della Giornata di Studio sanverese include tutti i contributi realizzati senza distinguere fra l’originale modo di presentazione.
As postcolonial theories have gradually but persistently gained more prominence in archaeology ov... more As postcolonial theories have gradually but persistently gained more prominence in archaeology over the last decade or so, most attention has been directed towards critiques of contemporary academic and, to a lesser extent, popular representations of past colonial contexts. Much less effort has been spent on alternative and fresh interpretations of the colonial contexts in the past themselves. In this issue, however, the focus is firmly on ‘doing archaeology’ along postcolonial lines. That means either novel interpretations and perspectives on colonial situations in the past, whether distant or less so, or reflections on fieldwork and research in contemporary postcolonial contexts. In both cases, the underlying assumption is that postcolonial theories offer exciting perspectives for doing archaeology differently and it is the aim of this issue to explore these differences, both past and present.
'Material Connections' eschews outdated theory, tainted by colonialist attitudes, and develops a ... more 'Material Connections' eschews outdated theory, tainted by colonialist attitudes, and develops a new cultural and historical understanding of how factors such as mobility, materiality, conflict and co-presence impacted on the formation of identity in the ancient Mediterranean. Fighting against ‘hyper-specialisation’ within the subject area, it explores the multiple ways that material culture was used to establish, maintain and alter identities, especially during periods of transition, culture encounter and change. A new perspective is adopted, one that perceives the use of material culture by prehistoric and historic Mediterranean peoples in formulating and changing their identities. It considers how objects and social identities are entangled in various cultural encounters and interconnections.
The movement of people as well as objects has always stood at the heart of attempts to understand the courses and process of human history. The Mediterranean offers a wealth of such information and Material Connections, expanding on this base, offers a dynamic, new subject of enquiry – the social identify of prehistoric and historic Mediterranean people – and considers how migration, colonial encounters, and connectivity or insularity influence social identities. The volume includes a series of innovative, closely related case studies that examine the contacts amongst various Mediterranean islands – Sardinia, Corsica, Sicily, Crete, Cyprus, the Balearics – and the nearby shores of Italy, Greece, North Africa, Spain and the Levant to explore the social and cultural impact of migratory, colonial and exchange encounters. Material Connections forges a new path in understanding the material culture of the Mediterranean and will be essential for those wishing to develop their understanding of material culture and identity in the Mediterranean.
Contents 1 Material connections: mobility, materiality and Mediterranean identities A. Bernard Knapp and Peter van Dommelen (Glasgow) 2 Classifying an oxymoron. On black boxes, materiality and identity in the scientific representation of the Mediterranean Carlos Cañete (Malaga, Spain) 3 Reproducing difference: mimesis and colonialism in Roman Hispania Alicia Jiménez (London, Glasgow) 4 From colonisation to habitation: early cultural adaptations in the Balearic Bronze Age Damià Ramis (Palma de Mallorca, Mallorca, Spain) 5 Social identities, materiality and connectivity in Early Bronze Age Crete Marina Gkiasta (Rethymnon, Crete, Greece) 6 Foreign materials, islander mobility and elite identity in Late Bronze Age Sardinia Anthony Russell (Glasgow) 7 Negotiating island interactions: Cyprus, the Aegean and the Levant in the Late Bronze to Early Iron Ages Sarah Janes (Glasgow) 8 Entangled identities on Iron Age Sardinia? Jeremy Hayne (Glasgow) 9 Iron, connectivity and local identities in the Iron Age to Classical Mediterranean Maria Kostoglou (Glasgow) 10 Mobility, materiality and identities in Iron Age east Iberia: on the appropriation of material culture and the question of judgement Jaime Vives-Ferrándiz (Valenica, Spain) 11 Trading settlements and the materiality of wine consumption in the north Tyrrhenian Sea region Corinna Riva (London) 12 Concluding thoughts Michael Rowlands (London)
The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean offers new insights into the ma... more The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean offers new insights into the material and social practices of many different Mediterranean peoples during the Bronze and Iron Ages, presenting in particular those features that both connect and distinguish them. Contributors discuss in depth a range of topics that motivate and structure Mediterranean archaeology today, including insularity and connectivity; mobility, migration, and colonization; hybridization and cultural encounters; materiality, memory, and identity; community and household; life and death; and ritual and ideology. The volume's broad coverage of different approaches and contemporary archaeological practices will help practitioners of Mediterranean archaeology to move the subject forward in new and dynamic ways. Together, the essays in this volume shed new light on the people, ideas, and materials that make up the world of Mediterranean archaeology today, beyond the borders that separate Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.
Migration has long been a major topic in archaeology and as long as culture history framed archae... more Migration has long been a major topic in archaeology and as long as culture history framed archaeological understanding of material culture, migrations have been seen as the stuff that (pre)history was made of. As New, processual and post-processual perspectives have steered attention elsewhere in more recent decades, migration has rapidly dropped off the archaeological agendas.
A lack of interest does not mean, however, that people in the past did not migrate and scientific advances in physical anthropology have forced the issue back on the agenda. The case of the so-called ‘Lady of York’ who probably hailed from North Africa, is an evident case in point. In other fields, like the ancient Mediterranean or the post-medieval northern and central Atlantic, the combined archaeological and literary evidence leaves little doubt about large-scale and sustained migrations, voluntary and forcibly alike.
The question is therefore not so much whether people migrated – they clearly did.
The aim of this issue is accordingly to look beyond the mere observation of large-scale movements or migrant networks and to examine not only the reasons that motivated people to migrate but also the consequences for both migrants and their host societies. This issue is therefore not so much about finding ‘hard evidence’ of actual migrants and migrations, although that is certainly part of the equation, but it rather represents an endeavour to explore the diversity and complexity of mobility and migration in the past, both recent and distant, and to investigate the many dimensions of these broad processes. The emphasis of the issue thus falls on local actors, practices, contexts and networks that sustained migrations and enabled mobility of, within and between communities in order to highlight the social and economic dimensions of migration and mobility.
This book offers the first comprehensive overview of rural settlement in the Punic world by bring... more This book offers the first comprehensive overview of rural settlement in the Punic world by bringing together and comparing evidence from across the western Mediterranean. A substantial part of the volume is taken up by a detailed discussion of the literary and archaeological evidence for Punic rural settlement in Sardinia, Sicily, Ibiza, Andalusia and North Africa. It also explores the multiple connections between rural settlement, agrarian organisation and regional colonial situations in order to offer new insights in Carthaginian colonialism and local Punic rural settlement, and their role in the wider Mediterranean context.
By publishing all this evidence and new interpretations in English, this book intends to draw attention to Punic archaeology in general and to these rural studies in particular and to situate them in the wider Mediterranean context of both classical antiquity and Mediterranean archaeology.
ISBN 9781845532703. xi + 284 pages. 82 figures and 4 tables.
The chapter discusses the developments of Sardinian archeology, phases of urban settlements and r... more The chapter discusses the developments of Sardinian archeology, phases of urban settlements and rural sites investigations. Moreover it provides an evaluation of the evidence that highlights the most salient features of Punic rural studies in Sardinia.
This chapter provides a comparative discussion of Punic rural settlement in its wider western Med... more This chapter provides a comparative discussion of Punic rural settlement in its wider western Mediterranean context. It discusses similarities and differences in the archaeological evidence and settlement patterns of the Punic regions. Moreover, it considers the agrarian background of rural settlement in order to gain an insight into the agrarian and regional organisation of the rural landscapes. The involvement of Carthaginian colonial expansion in these processes is further analyzed, as well as the social realities of peasant life and agrarian production in the Punic world.
... Colonial constructs: Colonialism and archaeology in the Mediterranean: Colonialism and archae... more ... Colonial constructs: Colonialism and archaeology in the Mediterranean: Colonialism and archaeology in the Mediterranean. Autores: Peter van Dommelen; Localización: World archaeology, ISSN 0043-8243, Vol. 28, Nº 3, 1997 , págs. 305-323. Fundación Dialnet. ...
Miguel John Versluys offers a richly textured essay in an attempt to resuscitate the concept of R... more Miguel John Versluys offers a richly textured essay in an attempt to resuscitate the concept of Romanization, which he has found to have been nearly flogged to death, to paraphrase an oft-quoted characterization of the Romanization debate in recent years. To be more precise, he argues that certain quarters of Romanist academia have ‘ganged up’ on the concept over the last decade or so and that others – the implicitly silent majority – have begun to stage a comeback in recent years. Versluys's self-imposed mission is to shore up the Roman resurgence with freshly cut intellectual joists.
... The Archaeology of the Colonized , London: Routledge. View all references; Silliman 200523. S... more ... The Archaeology of the Colonized , London: Routledge. View all references; Silliman 200523. Silliman, S. 2005. Culture contact or colonialism? ... The Archaeology of the Colonized , London: Routledge. View all references; Lawrence and Shepherd 2006). ...
A. Bernard Knapp, John F. Cherry and Peter van Dommelen introduce this Silver Anniversary issue o... more A. Bernard Knapp, John F. Cherry and Peter van Dommelen introduce this Silver Anniversary issue of JMA to celebrate 25 years of its publication (1988-2012). Nicola Terrenato, Carl Knappett and Joan Sanmartí also contribute their own reflections on 25 years of JMA.
... World Archaeology, 43 (1). ISSN 1470-1375. Full text not available from this repository. Item... more ... World Archaeology, 43 (1). ISSN 1470-1375. Full text not available from this repository. Item Type: Article. Additional Information: Glasgow Author Peter van Dommelen edited this issue of World Archaeology. Status: Published. Refereed: Yes. Authors: van Dommelen, Peter. ...
Asking different questions about and adopting an alternative perspective for understanding what h... more Asking different questions about and adopting an alternative perspective for understanding what happened in the past are rightly highlighted by François Richard as crucial to our understanding of colonial situations like that in 16th- to 18th-century West Africa. He frames his discussion with a speech given in Dakar by Nicolas Sarkozy, who in mid-2007 had just assumed the office of French president, and uses the strong reactions to those words very effectively to make it clear why thinking about the colonial past continues to matter, both in Africa and elsewhere.
People and their material culture have moved across the Mediterranean since early prehistory. By ... more People and their material culture have moved across the Mediterranean since early prehistory. By the early first millennium BC, a crucial change occurred when people began to establish permanent settlements overseas and migrated in substantial numbers. This review focuses on the critical centuries of the Iron Age to examine how thinking about colonialism and migration in the Mediterranean has changed in recent decades. Because Mediterranean and Classical archaeology have always paid more attention to the colonial settlements founded than to the people who migrated, this review begins with an examination of colonial terminology to assess its conceptual roots and the influences of modern colonialism and nationalism. This leads to a discussion of approaches to migration and colonialism in recent decades and consideration of present postcolonial views of colonial situations and (material) culture. The review concludes with a brief survey of potential connections between migration studie...
... | Ayuda. Insediamiento rurale ed organizzazione agraria nella Sardegna centro-occidentale. Au... more ... | Ayuda. Insediamiento rurale ed organizzazione agraria nella Sardegna centro-occidentale. Autores: Peter van Dommelen; Localización: Ecohistoria del paisaje agrario: la agricultura fenicio-púnica en el Mediterráneo / coord. ...
Anche se il concetto di ibridizzazione ha avuto un certo successo in recenti studi archeologici e... more Anche se il concetto di ibridizzazione ha avuto un certo successo in recenti studi archeologici e storici sul Mediterraneo antico, come dimostra appunto questo convegno, sono sempre pochi gli studi specifici che mettono in evidenza come questa nozione possa essere adoperata in concrete situazioni archeologiche. E' questo perciò l'obbiettivo che mi sono posto in questa relazione, cercando cioè di mettere in rilievo come il concetto di ibridizzazione possa contribuire a una migliore conoscenza di contatti culturali e interazioni coloniali nel Mediterraneo antico.
Partendo di una breve considerazione non tanto della sua definizione ma piuttosto dei parametri con i quali il concetto può essere usato, intenderò concentrarmi su alcuni contesti coloniali antichi per esaminare come specifiche interazioni culturali possono essere osservate e lette nella documentazione archeologica. Sfruttando dati recenti e particolarmente significativi, mi soffermerò su alcuni siti di età e cultura fenicie e puniche in Sardegna e la Penisola Iberica per illustrare e dimostrare i miei argomenti.
Hybridity, mestizaje, creolization, métissage, syncretism and the Middle Ground are all terms tha... more Hybridity, mestizaje, creolization, métissage, syncretism and the Middle Ground are all terms that have been put forward in the past decade to capture processes of mutual cultural and social influences that occur in contact and colonial situations. As hybridity, or one of its alternates like hybrid and hybridization, would seem to have gained most currency, the concept has increasingly been tied to the appearance of individual objects; detecting hybrid objects has practically become an end in itself. While all these terms have no doubt contributed to a greater awareness of the complexities and multi-faceted nature of colonial contexts, I will nevertheless argue that their explanatory contribution has been rather more equivocal as a result of a descriptive, if not superficial focus on the outward appearance of objects. In this paper, I will argue that most, if not all, insights about the complexity and the socially constructed nature of material culture and the accordingly contextual grounding of meaning that had been gained since the late 1980s, appear to have fallen by the wayside of academic popularity and buzzwords, as hybrid objects are all too often and all too readily taken as straightforward evidence of cultural hybridity. In an attempt to counter this trend, I propose to go back to square one and to begin by questioning what hybrid objects can tell us about contact and colonial situations before moving on to examine how material culture and meanings may be constructed in such contexts. My discussion will largely be centred on first millennium BC Sardinia, where the tzigantes of Monte Prama offer a starting-point that is as intriguing as it is inspiring.
"A One-Day Workshop on Material Culture and Daily Practice in Colonial Situations hosted by the J... more "A One-Day Workshop on Material Culture and Daily Practice in Colonial Situations hosted by the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
with Peter van Dommelen, Alicia Jiménez, Stephen Silliman, Diana Loren, Matt Liebmann, Maxine Oland and Robert Preucel
Migration is a topic with a long standing in Archaeology but it has received much less attention ... more Migration is a topic with a long standing in Archaeology but it has received much less attention in recent decades. In the wake of the renewed interest in connectivity in Mediterranean Archaeology and thanks to new scientific evidence, migration is now back on the archaeological agenda. With this fresh look come different concerns and new perspectives and I will highlight in particular the importance of material culture studies. Perhaps because of the limited recent attention in Archaeology itself, there has limited awareness of the available evidence for a deep past of migration in the social sciences at large and this has given rise to a perception that migration is by and large a specifically modern or at best early modern phenomenon.
In this paper, I shall explore the evidence for migration and overseas connections in the western Mediterranean of the first millennium BC, drawing on recent excavations and survey evidence in Sardinia, Sicily and Mediterranean Spain. I intend to focus in particular on peasant communities and the range of migration types that we may be able to discern, highlighting the role that material culture played and, I will argue, plays in migrations.
Il recente e rinnovato interesse per l’età del Ferro isolana ha permesso di porre in particolare ... more Il recente e rinnovato interesse per l’età del Ferro isolana ha permesso di porre in particolare luce una serie di processi di trasformazione a cui andarono incontro comunità locali e d’oltremare nel corso di questo periodo. L’attenzione degli studiosi è stata rivolta, da un lato, alla definizione dei contesti generali entro i quali collocare sia i cruciali cambiamenti intercorsi dalla società indigena nelle sue fasi terminali, sia il progressivo consolidamento, urbano e territoriale, degli insediamenti fenici sulle coste dell’isola. Da un altro lato, una spiccata specializzazione ha distinto lo studio dei materiali, soprattutto ceramici, inquadrati su basi tipo-cronologiche in elaborati repertori formali.
La formazione di binari di ricerca paralleli ha tuttavia determinato una scollatura fra contesti e materiali, con la conseguenza che poca attenzione è stata finora rivolta al livello intermedio di analisi costituito dall’esame dei materiali su base specificamente contestuale. Dal momento che è nostra opinione che le interazioni e gli specifici e ampiamente differenziati processi da queste innescati costituiscano la caratteristica distintiva dell’età del Ferro in Sardegna, riteniamo che lo studio contestuale delle evidenze materiali di questi fenomeni rappresenti la principale chiave di lettura per la comprensione di questo complesso periodo.
Su queste premesse, il nostro intendimento nel corso di questa giornata di studi è quindi di arginare la scollatura esistente fra materiali e contesti e stimolare l’adozione di un approccio integrato all’indagine degli esiti materiali delle interazioni, dei contesti e delle pratiche sociali ad essi sottese, nella loro evoluzione nel corso dell’età del Ferro così come percepibili su base archeologica.
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Martes, 3 de abril, a las 18 horas. New Perspectives in Archaeology: Material Culture... more Programa:
Martes, 3 de abril, a las 18 horas. New Perspectives in Archaeology: Material Culture. Miércoles, 4 de abril, a las 16 horas. New Perspectives in Archaeology: Postcolonial Theory. Viernes, 20 de abril, a las 12 horas. Colonial Interactions in Nuragic and Phoenician Sardinia. Lunes, 23 de abril, a las 18 horas. Rural Connections: Migration, Technology and Agrarian Production in the Classical Mediterranean. Viernes, 27 de abril, a las 11 horas. Rural Landscapes: Agrarian Production and Rural Organization in Punic Sardinia.
In this paper, Corinna Riva and I present research that we first began to explore within the Mate... more In this paper, Corinna Riva and I present research that we first began to explore within the Material Connections project and it is to the resulting book (van Dommelen and Knapp 2010) that both the intellectual and regional roots of this presentation may be traced. We thus look beyond prestige goods and ‘against the grain’ of colonial networks to the particular contexts and material dimensions of interaction between people and objects ‘in motion’; our aim is to understand why and how they moved and how their moves were perceived and acted upon. In regional terms, we focus on the northern Tyrrhenian Sea, which already featured in various contributions to the Material Connections volume. Chronologically, we examine the Iron Age in the broadest sense of the term, which in this region extends at least as late as the 5th century BC. In the present paper, we intend to expand our earlier work in both thematic and regional terms. Geographically, we concentrate our attention on the Tyrrhenian Sea sensu strictu, that is the sea between the Italian mainland (Etruria) and the islands of Sardinia and Corsica – also known as the ‘Sardonian Sea’ - and emphasise the long-term and intensive connections between the surrounding shorelines. Dovetailing with our geographical priority is our theoretical focus on contexts of interaction: by taking the sea as our geographical point of departure, possibly even as a ‘maritory’, we intend to explore the materialities of interaction with equal weight to the communities involved. By homing in on particular contexts, we propose to cut across conventional networks and their top-down perspectives and to foreground the variability and local nature of different and indeed divergent ‘regimes of value’.
van Dommelen, P. and A.B. Knapp (eds) 2010: Material Connections in the Ancient Mediterranean: Mobility, Materiality and Mediterranean Identities. London: Routledge.
Migration is a topic with a long standing in Archaeology but also one that has received much less... more Migration is a topic with a long standing in Archaeology but also one that has received much less attention in recent decades. In the wake of the renewed interest in connectivity in Mediterranean Archaeology and thanks to new scientific evidence, migration is now back on the agenda. In this paper, I shall explore the role of migration and overseas connections between peasant communities in the western Mediterranean of the Classical-Hellenistic period. I intend to examine in particular the technology of wine production and its social implications, drawing on recent excavations and survey evidence in Sardinia, Sicily and eastern Iberia.
Connectivity has been a key term in much recent Mediterranean work and many types of connections ... more Connectivity has been a key term in much recent Mediterranean work and many types of connections between many regions across many periods have been explored in recent years. One connection that has received remarkably little attention, however, is the human one, made up of large-scale migration. Not only has migration been distinctly out of fashion for a long time as the (post)modern emphasis on local and indigenous development looked for ‘internal’ explanations, its role in the constitution of peasant communities has been virtually unexplored.
In this paper I will explore precisely this aspect of the western Mediterranean world between the 6th and 3rd centuries BC, when ‘traditional’ indigenous landscapes were transformed into rural and peasant landscapes of the Classical and Hellenistic periods. Drawing on recent fieldwork, I intend to examine how some of these rural landscapes in Sardinia, Ibiza and central eastern Iberia were constituted in direct contact with each other.
Il tema del rapporto tra paesaggio e identità è uno tra quelli più ricchi di prospettive dell’att... more Il tema del rapporto tra paesaggio e identità è uno tra quelli più ricchi di prospettive dell’attuale panorama interdisciplinare. Esso ci obbliga a riflettere, in primo luogo, sul quesito “quali paesaggi e quali identità”. Quali paesaggi perché è chiaro che i paesaggi sono molti, differenti, addirittura sovrapposti; quali identità perché ogni paesaggio esprime plurime identità e la sua valorizzazione implica la profonda conoscenza delle matrici identitarie. Paesaggio e identità sono quindi due concetti caratterizzati da una molteplicità di significati che li trasformano in materie di studio assai complesse e altrettanto interessanti. Sulla scia delle nostre molteplici esperienze abbiamo voluto organizzare questo seminario con la finalità di riflettere sui paesaggi e sulle identità della Sardegna attuale e nel passato, prendendo come punto fermo e di partenza la definizione di alcuni concetti teorici come la costruzione dell’identità ed il rapporto con i quadri territoriali. La costruzione dell’identità implica differenze e chiama in causa non solo radici ma anche l’alterità. Secondo Remotti “l’alterità è presente non solo ai margini, al di là dei confini, ma nel nocciolo stesso dell’identità”,per cui “l’identità (/) è fatta anche di alterità” (Remotti, 2001) I paesaggi si confrontano con le identità che rappresentano anche alterità, nella storia, nelle architetture, negli statuti dei luoghi ed è per tali motivi che riteniamo abbia senso parlare di paesaggio, o piuttosto di paesaggi, come referenti simbolici dell’identità. La giornata di studio rappresenta un momento di confronto tra vari aspetti interdisciplinari e si colloca all’interno di un filone di ricerca avviato tra le università di Glasgow e di Cagliari incentrato su “Paesaggio e patrimonio culturale: memoria, identità, sviluppo”.
In questo studio di tradizioni funerarie nel mondo rurale della Sardegna punica mi concentro non ... more In questo studio di tradizioni funerarie nel mondo rurale della Sardegna punica mi concentro non tanto sulle stesse tombe quanto sui paesaggi rurali in cui esse sono collocate e dei quali sono parte integrante. Questo approccio non solo mi permette di mettere a fuoco alcuni principi organizzativi delle comunità contadine che occupavano le campagne sarde in età punica ma contribuisce anche a vedere i paesaggi abitativi e coltivati come propri e veri paesaggi umani. Per mettere in rilievo le caratteristiche specifiche dei contesti sardi, mi riferisco a vari altri contesti rurali del mondo punico nel Mediterraneo occidentale.
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Since the overwhelming majority of the pre-modern world population has long lived rural lifestyles, it is therefore no exaggeration to state that in order to understand ancient societies, it is imperative to know the rural areas around and between cities – especially as pre-modern economies were largely driven by rural production. Archaeologists have made great strides to do just that since regional analysis and surveys were developed in the 1960s, and we have learnt a great deal about rural and regional settlement patterns across the world. Modern techniques such as GIS, geophysics and remote sensing have given regional research renewed impetus in recent decades.
While we have thus gained an insight in where people lived outside cities, there remain yet myriad aspects of rural life that have only sparingly been explored. Rural sanctuaries may serve as one example, as more attention has usually been given to ritual structures in the countryside, but there has been much less interest in how such buildings and places were part of rural communities and their lives. Another aspect that touches on the heart of the rural world are agrarian practices: while we know where rural inhabitants lived, we are much less informed about how land was used, and how crops were grown, processed and distributed. Research on health and diet has also begun to reveal striking contrasts and variations between rural and urban lifeways and wellbeing.
This volume seeks to look beyond rural settlement patterns to explore the lives and works of rural communities across the world and over time: agrarian production is an important aspect, but so are rural markets and burial traditions. Equally important are questions of rural household organization, tenancy, ownership, and cash-crops, while health, wellbeing and diet can offer insights into the risks and opportunities for rural communities.
The movement of people as well as objects has always stood at the heart of attempts to understand the courses and process of human history. The Mediterranean offers a wealth of such information and Material Connections, expanding on this base, offers a dynamic, new subject of enquiry – the social identify of prehistoric and historic Mediterranean people – and considers how migration, colonial encounters, and connectivity or insularity influence social identities. The volume includes a series of innovative, closely related case studies that examine the contacts amongst various Mediterranean islands – Sardinia, Corsica, Sicily, Crete, Cyprus, the Balearics – and the nearby shores of Italy, Greece, North Africa, Spain and the Levant to explore the social and cultural impact of migratory, colonial and exchange encounters. Material Connections forges a new path in understanding the material culture of the Mediterranean and will be essential for those wishing to develop their understanding of material culture and identity in the Mediterranean.
Contents
1 Material connections: mobility, materiality and Mediterranean identities
A. Bernard Knapp and Peter van Dommelen (Glasgow)
2 Classifying an oxymoron. On black boxes, materiality and identity in the scientific representation of the Mediterranean
Carlos Cañete (Malaga, Spain)
3 Reproducing difference: mimesis and colonialism in Roman Hispania
Alicia Jiménez (London, Glasgow)
4 From colonisation to habitation: early cultural adaptations in the Balearic Bronze Age
Damià Ramis (Palma de Mallorca, Mallorca, Spain)
5 Social identities, materiality and connectivity in Early Bronze Age Crete
Marina Gkiasta (Rethymnon, Crete, Greece)
6 Foreign materials, islander mobility and elite identity in Late Bronze Age Sardinia
Anthony Russell (Glasgow)
7 Negotiating island interactions: Cyprus, the Aegean and the Levant in the Late Bronze to Early Iron Ages
Sarah Janes (Glasgow)
8 Entangled identities on Iron Age Sardinia?
Jeremy Hayne (Glasgow)
9 Iron, connectivity and local identities in the Iron Age to Classical Mediterranean
Maria Kostoglou (Glasgow)
10 Mobility, materiality and identities in Iron Age east Iberia: on the appropriation of material culture and the question of judgement
Jaime Vives-Ferrándiz (Valenica, Spain)
11 Trading settlements and the materiality of wine consumption in the north Tyrrhenian Sea region
Corinna Riva (London)
12 Concluding thoughts
Michael Rowlands (London)
A lack of interest does not mean, however, that people in the past did not migrate and scientific advances in physical anthropology have forced the issue back on the agenda. The case of the so-called ‘Lady of York’ who probably hailed from North Africa, is an evident case in point. In other fields, like the ancient Mediterranean or the post-medieval northern and central Atlantic, the combined archaeological and literary evidence leaves little doubt about large-scale and sustained migrations, voluntary and forcibly alike.
The question is therefore not so much whether people migrated – they clearly did.
The aim of this issue is accordingly to look beyond the mere observation of large-scale movements or migrant networks and to examine not only the reasons that motivated people to migrate but also the consequences for both migrants and their host societies. This issue is therefore not so much about finding ‘hard evidence’ of actual migrants and migrations, although that is certainly part of the equation, but it rather represents an endeavour to explore the diversity and complexity of mobility and migration in the past, both recent and distant, and to investigate the many dimensions of these broad processes. The emphasis of the issue thus falls on local actors, practices, contexts and networks that sustained migrations and enabled mobility of, within and between communities in order to highlight the social and economic dimensions of migration and mobility.
By publishing all this evidence and new interpretations in English, this book intends to draw attention to Punic archaeology in general and to these rural studies in particular and to situate them in the wider Mediterranean context of both classical antiquity and Mediterranean archaeology.
ISBN 9781845532703. xi + 284 pages. 82 figures and 4 tables.
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Since the overwhelming majority of the pre-modern world population has long lived rural lifestyles, it is therefore no exaggeration to state that in order to understand ancient societies, it is imperative to know the rural areas around and between cities – especially as pre-modern economies were largely driven by rural production. Archaeologists have made great strides to do just that since regional analysis and surveys were developed in the 1960s, and we have learnt a great deal about rural and regional settlement patterns across the world. Modern techniques such as GIS, geophysics and remote sensing have given regional research renewed impetus in recent decades.
While we have thus gained an insight in where people lived outside cities, there remain yet myriad aspects of rural life that have only sparingly been explored. Rural sanctuaries may serve as one example, as more attention has usually been given to ritual structures in the countryside, but there has been much less interest in how such buildings and places were part of rural communities and their lives. Another aspect that touches on the heart of the rural world are agrarian practices: while we know where rural inhabitants lived, we are much less informed about how land was used, and how crops were grown, processed and distributed. Research on health and diet has also begun to reveal striking contrasts and variations between rural and urban lifeways and wellbeing.
This volume seeks to look beyond rural settlement patterns to explore the lives and works of rural communities across the world and over time: agrarian production is an important aspect, but so are rural markets and burial traditions. Equally important are questions of rural household organization, tenancy, ownership, and cash-crops, while health, wellbeing and diet can offer insights into the risks and opportunities for rural communities.
The movement of people as well as objects has always stood at the heart of attempts to understand the courses and process of human history. The Mediterranean offers a wealth of such information and Material Connections, expanding on this base, offers a dynamic, new subject of enquiry – the social identify of prehistoric and historic Mediterranean people – and considers how migration, colonial encounters, and connectivity or insularity influence social identities. The volume includes a series of innovative, closely related case studies that examine the contacts amongst various Mediterranean islands – Sardinia, Corsica, Sicily, Crete, Cyprus, the Balearics – and the nearby shores of Italy, Greece, North Africa, Spain and the Levant to explore the social and cultural impact of migratory, colonial and exchange encounters. Material Connections forges a new path in understanding the material culture of the Mediterranean and will be essential for those wishing to develop their understanding of material culture and identity in the Mediterranean.
Contents
1 Material connections: mobility, materiality and Mediterranean identities
A. Bernard Knapp and Peter van Dommelen (Glasgow)
2 Classifying an oxymoron. On black boxes, materiality and identity in the scientific representation of the Mediterranean
Carlos Cañete (Malaga, Spain)
3 Reproducing difference: mimesis and colonialism in Roman Hispania
Alicia Jiménez (London, Glasgow)
4 From colonisation to habitation: early cultural adaptations in the Balearic Bronze Age
Damià Ramis (Palma de Mallorca, Mallorca, Spain)
5 Social identities, materiality and connectivity in Early Bronze Age Crete
Marina Gkiasta (Rethymnon, Crete, Greece)
6 Foreign materials, islander mobility and elite identity in Late Bronze Age Sardinia
Anthony Russell (Glasgow)
7 Negotiating island interactions: Cyprus, the Aegean and the Levant in the Late Bronze to Early Iron Ages
Sarah Janes (Glasgow)
8 Entangled identities on Iron Age Sardinia?
Jeremy Hayne (Glasgow)
9 Iron, connectivity and local identities in the Iron Age to Classical Mediterranean
Maria Kostoglou (Glasgow)
10 Mobility, materiality and identities in Iron Age east Iberia: on the appropriation of material culture and the question of judgement
Jaime Vives-Ferrándiz (Valenica, Spain)
11 Trading settlements and the materiality of wine consumption in the north Tyrrhenian Sea region
Corinna Riva (London)
12 Concluding thoughts
Michael Rowlands (London)
A lack of interest does not mean, however, that people in the past did not migrate and scientific advances in physical anthropology have forced the issue back on the agenda. The case of the so-called ‘Lady of York’ who probably hailed from North Africa, is an evident case in point. In other fields, like the ancient Mediterranean or the post-medieval northern and central Atlantic, the combined archaeological and literary evidence leaves little doubt about large-scale and sustained migrations, voluntary and forcibly alike.
The question is therefore not so much whether people migrated – they clearly did.
The aim of this issue is accordingly to look beyond the mere observation of large-scale movements or migrant networks and to examine not only the reasons that motivated people to migrate but also the consequences for both migrants and their host societies. This issue is therefore not so much about finding ‘hard evidence’ of actual migrants and migrations, although that is certainly part of the equation, but it rather represents an endeavour to explore the diversity and complexity of mobility and migration in the past, both recent and distant, and to investigate the many dimensions of these broad processes. The emphasis of the issue thus falls on local actors, practices, contexts and networks that sustained migrations and enabled mobility of, within and between communities in order to highlight the social and economic dimensions of migration and mobility.
By publishing all this evidence and new interpretations in English, this book intends to draw attention to Punic archaeology in general and to these rural studies in particular and to situate them in the wider Mediterranean context of both classical antiquity and Mediterranean archaeology.
ISBN 9781845532703. xi + 284 pages. 82 figures and 4 tables.
Partendo di una breve considerazione non tanto della sua definizione ma piuttosto dei parametri con i quali il concetto può essere usato, intenderò concentrarmi su alcuni contesti coloniali antichi per esaminare come specifiche interazioni culturali possono essere osservate e lette nella documentazione archeologica. Sfruttando dati recenti e particolarmente significativi, mi soffermerò su alcuni siti di età e cultura fenicie e puniche in Sardegna e la Penisola Iberica per illustrare e dimostrare i miei argomenti.
with Peter van Dommelen, Alicia Jiménez, Stephen Silliman, Diana Loren, Matt Liebmann, Maxine Oland and Robert Preucel
By invitation only
In this paper, I shall explore the evidence for migration and overseas connections in the western Mediterranean of the first millennium BC, drawing on recent excavations and survey evidence in Sardinia, Sicily and Mediterranean Spain. I intend to focus in particular on peasant communities and the range of migration types that we may be able to discern, highlighting the role that material culture played and, I will argue, plays in migrations.
La formazione di binari di ricerca paralleli ha tuttavia determinato una scollatura fra contesti e materiali, con la conseguenza che poca attenzione è stata finora rivolta al livello intermedio di analisi costituito dall’esame dei materiali su base specificamente contestuale. Dal momento che è nostra opinione che le interazioni e gli specifici e ampiamente differenziati processi da queste innescati costituiscano la caratteristica distintiva dell’età del Ferro in Sardegna, riteniamo che lo studio contestuale delle evidenze materiali di questi fenomeni rappresenti la principale chiave di lettura per la comprensione di questo complesso periodo.
Su queste premesse, il nostro intendimento nel corso di questa giornata di studi è quindi di arginare la scollatura esistente fra materiali e contesti e stimolare l’adozione di un approccio integrato all’indagine degli esiti materiali delle interazioni, dei contesti e delle pratiche sociali ad essi sottese, nella loro evoluzione nel corso dell’età del Ferro così come percepibili su base archeologica.
Martes, 3 de abril, a las 18 horas. New Perspectives in Archaeology: Material Culture.
Miércoles, 4 de abril, a las 16 horas. New Perspectives in Archaeology: Postcolonial Theory.
Viernes, 20 de abril, a las 12 horas. Colonial Interactions in Nuragic and Phoenician Sardinia.
Lunes, 23 de abril, a las 18 horas. Rural Connections: Migration, Technology and Agrarian Production in the Classical Mediterranean.
Viernes, 27 de abril, a las 11 horas. Rural Landscapes: Agrarian Production and Rural Organization in Punic Sardinia.
In the present paper, we intend to expand our earlier work in both thematic and regional terms. Geographically, we concentrate our attention on the Tyrrhenian Sea sensu strictu, that is the sea between the Italian mainland (Etruria) and the islands of Sardinia and Corsica – also known as the ‘Sardonian Sea’ - and emphasise the long-term and intensive connections between the surrounding shorelines. Dovetailing with our geographical priority is our theoretical focus on contexts of interaction: by taking the sea as our geographical point of departure, possibly even as a ‘maritory’, we intend to explore the materialities of interaction with equal weight to the communities involved. By homing in on particular contexts, we propose to cut across conventional networks and their top-down perspectives and to foreground the variability and local nature of different and indeed divergent ‘regimes of value’.
van Dommelen, P. and A.B. Knapp (eds) 2010: Material Connections in the Ancient Mediterranean: Mobility, Materiality and Mediterranean Identities. London: Routledge.
In this paper, I shall explore the role of migration and overseas connections between peasant communities in the western Mediterranean of the Classical-Hellenistic period. I intend to examine in particular the technology of wine production and its social implications, drawing on recent excavations and survey evidence in Sardinia, Sicily and eastern Iberia.
been distinctly out of fashion for a long time as the (post)modern emphasis on local and indigenous development looked for ‘internal’ explanations, its role in the constitution of peasant communities has been virtually unexplored.
In this paper I will explore precisely this aspect of the western Mediterranean world between the 6th and 3rd centuries BC, when ‘traditional’ indigenous landscapes were transformed into rural and peasant landscapes of the Classical and Hellenistic periods. Drawing on recent fieldwork, I intend to examine how some of these rural landscapes in Sardinia, Ibiza and central eastern Iberia were constituted in direct contact with each other.
Paesaggio e identità sono quindi due concetti caratterizzati da una molteplicità di significati che li trasformano in materie di studio assai complesse e altrettanto interessanti.
Sulla scia delle nostre molteplici esperienze abbiamo voluto organizzare questo seminario con la finalità di riflettere sui paesaggi e sulle identità della Sardegna attuale e nel passato, prendendo come punto fermo e di partenza la definizione di alcuni concetti teorici come la costruzione dell’identità ed il rapporto con i quadri territoriali.
La costruzione dell’identità implica differenze e chiama in causa non solo radici ma anche l’alterità. Secondo Remotti “l’alterità è presente non solo ai margini, al di là dei confini, ma nel nocciolo stesso dell’identità”,per cui “l’identità (/) è fatta anche di alterità” (Remotti, 2001) I paesaggi si confrontano con le identità che rappresentano anche alterità, nella storia, nelle
architetture, negli statuti dei luoghi ed è per tali motivi che riteniamo abbia senso parlare di paesaggio, o piuttosto di paesaggi, come referenti simbolici dell’identità.
La giornata di studio rappresenta un momento di confronto tra vari aspetti interdisciplinari e si colloca all’interno di un filone di ricerca avviato tra le università di Glasgow e di Cagliari
incentrato su “Paesaggio e patrimonio culturale: memoria, identità, sviluppo”.