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During the first millennium BCE, complex encounters of Phoenician and Greek colonists with natives of the Iberian Peninsula transformed the region and influenced the entire history of the Mediterranean. One of the first books on these encounters to appear in English, this volume brings together a multinational group of contributors to explore ancient Iberia’s colonies and indigenous societies, as well as the comparative study of colonialism. These scholars—from a range of disciplines including classics, history, anthropology, and archaeology—address such topics as trade and consumption, changing urban landscapes, cultural transformations, and the ways in which these issues played out in the Greek and Phoenician imaginations. Situating ancient Iberia within Mediterranean colonial history and establishing a theoretical framework for approaching encounters between colonists and natives, these studies exemplify the new intellectual vistas opened by the engagement of colonial studies with Iberian history.

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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<br><br>--Ian Morris, Stanford University

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

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Michael Dietler is associate professor of anthropology, associate in classics, and member of the Program on the Ancient Mediterranean World at the University of Chicago. Carolina Lopez-Ruiz is assistant professor of Greek and Latin at the Ohio State University.

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