Mobile craftspeople and orientalising transculturation in seventh-century BC Iberia
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Cambridge University Press
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Iberia Iron age Household Archaeology Ceramic technology XRF Female mobility
Date
2023-07-05Referencia bibliográfica
Blanco-González, A., Padilla-Fernández, J. J., & Dorado-Alejos, A. (2023). Mobile craftspeople and orientalising transculturation in seventh-century BC Iberia. Antiquity, 97(394), 908-926.[https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2023.96]
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Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (research project ARQPARENT, PID2019-104349GA-I00); Autonomous Government of Castile and Leon (grants 41/2017-SA and 21/086-SA)Abstract
During the early first millennium BC, Phoenician
peoples settled the Iberian coasts instigating cultural
innovations known as the orientalising; indigenous
communities of the interior have long been considered
as passively dependent on, or isolated from,
these developments. Recent excavations at the Early
Iron Age village of Cerro de San Vicente in central
Spain, however, have yielded domestic contexts that
prompt reconsideration of this relationship. The
authors use settlement layout, architecture and locally
made tablewares to identify heterarchical organisation
around virilocal and bilateral kinship and hybrid practices
that attest to adoption of know-how and practices
from distant places. Emphasis is placed on the
role of embodied craftworking skills and female
mobility in transculturation processes.