ENTANGLED WORLDS: MATERIALITY, ARCHAEOME- TRY AND MEDITERRANEAN-ATLANTIC IDENTITIES IN WESTERN IBERIA
Keywords:
connectivity, atlactic-mediterranean interactions, colonial and pre-colonial encounters, trade, gift and commodities economies, Bronze Age.Abstract
The aim of this paper is to gain insights into the mechanisms by which new socio-materialities were co-created in western Iberia as a result of encounters between people of Atlantic and Medi- terranean cultural and technological backgrounds during the Late Bronze Age (1400/1200-700 BC). Particular emphasis is placed on the landscapes where socio-cultural encounters took place and where material images, artefacts and technologies were hybridised, integrated or recreated. To do this, typology and archaeometry information is taken into consideration. The material evidence analysed comprises specific objects such as gold items, bronze axes, statue-menhirs and stelae, which sheds light on the ways in which the social identity of the Atlantic people shifted or was al- tered through these encounters, and to what extent the people adopted and adapted socio-material practices within a shared cultural milieu.
