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- Indigeneity and Colonial Response: The Metamorphoses of Balearic Culture in the Late Iron Age
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- Smith, Alexander Joel
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- 2015
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- xvii, 393 p.
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- Thesis (Ph.D. -- Brown University (2015)
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- van Dommelen, Peter
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- Alcock, Sue
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- Cherry, John
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- Robert, Preucel
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- Pérez-Juez, Amalia
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- Brown University. Archaeology and the Ancient World
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- This dissertation is focused on the prehistoric, indigenous culture of the northern two Balearic Islands (Mallorca and Menorca) during the second half of the first millennium B.C.E. During this Late Talayotic period, not only do the monumental, ritual and funerary landscapes shift significantly, but two major powers emerge in the Western Mediterranean as dominant economic and politic forces: Carthage and Rome. The second half of the first millennium B.C.E. therefore represents a critical transition for Mallorca and Menorca. This period begins with increased trade contacts with the Carthaginian settlement of Ibiza, as well as other settlements within the Carthaginian sphere, along with the Iberian coast and intermittent trade with southern France, particularly picking up in the sixth century B.C.E. By the Second Punic War, however, the situation had completely changed in the Western Mediterranean, as Rome became the dominant political force in the region and subsequently conquered the island chain in 123 B.C.E. What happened next is generally considered to be a period of acculturation and Romanization for Mallorca and Menorca, though the archaeological evidence from indigenous sites says something quite different. This dissertation is designed to critically examine these cultural transitions using aspects of postcolonial theory to understand how changes were reflected in the material culture and settlement practices of the indigenous inhabitants on Mallorca and Menorca. Using settlement pattern data, domestic remains, funerary and ritual monuments, as well as underwater archaeological evidence, this dissertation takes a close look at Late Talayotic culture to understand how indigenous practices persisted, changed, or ceased during these transitional periods, approaching notions of Mediterranean indigeneity and questioning the nature of Western Mediterranean locality in the late first millennium B.C.E.
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- Balearic Islands
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- Indigeneity
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- Talayotic
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- Late Talayotic
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- Archaeology
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- Protohistory
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- Spain--Balearic Islands
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- English
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- 10.7301/Z0M90713
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