Colonial Encounters in Ancient Iberia: Phoenician, Greek, and Indigenous Relations (Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith) - Hardcover

"The diversity of authors in this collection is noteworthy, and the archaeological and historical data they present are rich and highly useful. This book will be a widely consulted benchmark in the study of early Iberian colonialism, and will stimulate focused, interactive debates over the topic for years to come."--Susan E. Alcock, Brown University --Susan E. Alcock, Brown University "Iberia was one of the major regions of the Iron Age Mediterranean, but it remains poorly known among English-language archaeologists, historians, and classicists. This book, providing superb case studies of everything from the literary sources to the botanical remains, will be required reading for many years to come." --Ian Morris, Stanford University

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.