Colonial Encounters in Ancient Iberia

The essays in this book present new research on the interactions between Phoenicians, Greeks and indigenous people in the Iberian Peninsula during the first millennium BC. The book provides an overview of the main approaches and positions taken on the subject, and includes theoretical work on colonisation, archaeological case studies and philological research, as well as reappraisals of Iberian resources trade and economy, and of the nature of the polity of Tartessos.