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Peter van Dommelen, Carlos Gomez Bellard, Peter van Dommelen, Carols Gomez Bellard - Rural Landscapes of the Punic World, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

Rural Landscapes of the Punic World

Av Peter van Dommelen, Carlos Gomez Bellard, Peter van Dommelen, Carols Gomez Bellard

Del 11 i serien Monographs In Mediterranean Archaeology

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Phoenician and Punic archaeology have long been overlooked by Mediterranean archaeologists, who focused their attention on Greek and Roman cultures. Although the Punic cities and their rural landscapes are to be found along the southern shores and on the islands of the western Mediterranean basin, comprehensive studies of these archaeological remains are virtually non-existent. This book investigates Punic rural settlement in the western Mediterranean by bringing together and comparing the currently dispersed existing evidence for rural Punic settlement. The core of the volume is accordingly made up by a detailed discussion of the archaeological evidence for Punic rural settlement from Sardinia, Sicily, Ibiza, mainland Spain and North Africa. Because agriculture and agrarian produce have always been assumed to have played a critical role in the Carthaginian colonial expansion, the connections between the various colonial contexts and the local characteristics of rural organisation are explored in detail in order to enhance our understanding of these colonial contexts. This in turn provides better insight into Carthaginian colonialism and local Punic rural settlement and their role in the wider Mediterranean context. By publishing this evidence and these interpretations in English, the authors hope 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.
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Carlos Gomez Bellard teaches in the Department of Prehistory and Archaeology of the University of Valencia, Spain. Peter van Dommelen is Joukowsky Family Professor in Archaeology and Professor of Anthropology at Brown University.

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'This volume contributes not only to our understanding of the Punic world it but also enriches the facts concerning the Western Mediterranean, without taking into account the fact that the method represents a potential model for other regions, Phoenicia, for example. Its principle advantage is an original approach from all types of sources. Because it isn't simple a compilation of prior research, existing sources and a summary of searches or surveys, the collective work brings a major and quality contribution to our best understanding of ancient rural life, Punic in particular.' English translation of review in French by Elodie Guillon, Universite de Toulouse, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009.12.09 'If we assess the information contained in this volume, our opinions must be highly positive, as the relevant and necessary aims set by the editors have been broadly achieved. Readers will find new, interesting and well documented information within a coherent structure. It is, without doubt, an obligatory reference book for anyone who wants to approach the Punic strategy for agricultural production from an international perspective.' Teresa Chapa Brunet, Complutense University, Madrid, European Journal of Archaeology, 14.2, 2011

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