Iberian amphorae beyond the mainland: imports in southwestern Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Spain)
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ORIGINAL PAPER
Iberian amphorae beyond the mainland: imports in southwestern Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Spain) Evanthia Tsantini 1 & Carlos Quintana 2 & Daniel Albero 2,3 & Miguel Ángel Cau Ontiveros 1,4,5 Received: 26 May 2017 / Accepted: 26 March 2018 # Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2018
Abstract This paper offers an integrated archaeological and geochemical study of Iberian amphora found at the indigenous settlement of Puig de Sa Morisca, in southwestern Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Spain). The results of the chemical characterisation and its comparison with a large database for this type of ceramic materials provide a first insight into trade of foodstuffs between the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands during the Iron Age. The results of this study show a considerable complexity in the Iberian amphorae arriving in the Balearic Islands. On the one hand, the study supports a previous hypothesis that certain amphora from eastern and southern Cossetania (current area of Tarragona and the Vallés) arrived in the Islands; and on the other hand, it also demonstrates for the first time the arrival of some Laietanian (current area of Maresme -Mataró) products. Keywords Iberian . Amphorae . Provenance . Trade . Technology . Iberian Peninsula . Balearic Islands
Introduction During the Iron Age, different people populated the Iberian Peninsula, and each had its own economic, social, legal and Miguel Ángel Cau Ontiveros is a senior author. * Evanthia Tsantini [email protected]; [email protected] Carlos Quintana [email protected] Daniel Albero [email protected] Miguel Ángel Cau Ontiveros [email protected] 1
ERAAUB, Facultat de Geografia i Història, Departament d’Història i Arqueologia, Universitat de Barcelona, c/ Montalegre 6-8, 08001 Barcelona, Spain
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ArqueoUIB - Research Group in Material Culture and Archaeological Heritage, University of the Balearic Islands, Palma, Spain
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Departament de Ciències Històriques i Teoria de les Arts, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma, Spain
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ICREA, Pg. Lluís Companys 23, 08010 Barcelona, Spain
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Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
administrative system as well as its own language. All of them, though, shared common sociocultural and economic characteristics. The Iberians occupied the regions that are nowadays southern France, northeastern Spain (Catalonia), the east coast of Spain (Valencia-Alicante) and the southeastern part of the Iberian Peninsula (Murcia and parts of Andalucía) (Fig. 1). The Phoenician and Greek colonisation processes had a great economic and commercial impact on these indigenous populations. The colonisation process played an essential role in converting nomad Iberians into settled populations, and in the development of stable autarchic tribal units with an economic system based on agriculture and livestock breeding. In the meantime, the Balearic Islands, off the eastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula, were home to the so-called indigenous BPostalaiotic cul
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