The Archaeology of the Iberians

A 1998 study of the Iberians, an important people in late Iron Age Europe heavily influenced by invading neighbours.

Arturo Ruiz (Author), Manuel Molinos (Author), Mary Turton (Translated by)

9780521564021, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 10 December 1998

350 pages, 4 b/w illus.
23.5 x 15.8 x 2.8 cm, 0.695 kg

"The book offers an excellent descriptive analysis of Iberian material culture as well as an interpretive reconstruction of their landscape, economic, political, and social history." Choice

The Iberians inhabited southern and eastern Spain between the Greek and Phoenician colonisation, beginning in the eighth century BC, and the Roman conquest. This was a period of significant changes in native Spanish societies, and the emergence of urbanism and the adoption of ideological symbols and technological innovations from the colonists created an important and unique Iron Age culture. In this 1998 book, Arturo Ruiz and Manuel Molinos offer the first synthesis of the period for more than thirty years, and cover a number of topics: ways in which material culture can help to explain cultural change, ethnicity, and ethnic conflict, and the decline of the Iberian world following the Punic Wars and Roman colonization. The result is a sophisticated, theoretically informed case study of cultural change within a specific complex society.

Introduction
1. From type objects to type product
2. For now, just time
3. Economy and territory of the Iberians
4. The production process in the settlement
5. Iberian society
6. Ethnic groups, states … socio-economic formations
7. Models of servitude for analysing the history of the Iberians
Cartographic appendix
Bibliography.

Subject Areas: Prehistoric archaeology [HDDA]