Book/s review -
Carolina López-Ruiz - Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean
Tamar Hodos - The Archaeology of the Mediterranean Iron Age
Despite the conventional association with sophis-ticated metallurgical technologies, the Iron Age has long fallen between the two academic poles of prehistoric and classical archaeology. The more recent invention of a self-consciously ambivalent terminology of ‘proto-historic’ and ‘proto-urban’ features represents an attempt by mostly European archaeologists to give the Iron Age socio-economic substance in its own right, while at the same time also underscoring the ambiguity of the period. Moreover, as the Iron Age has since become synonymous with notions of state formation and urbanization, its deep evolutionist roots have only become more evident.
The turn towards connectivity, networks and migration of the past two decades has yet again begun to shift archaeological understanding of
the Iron Age, bringing out, at least in the Mediterranean, long-standing colonial associations and emphasizing both (supra)regional connections and local interactions. The publication of twomonographs that offer a coherent Mediterranean-wide perspective on the Iron Age, and that explicitly engage with the region’s colonial histories and that otherwise share multiple themes and places namely Tamar Hodos’s The Archaeology of the Mediterranean Iron Age (Hodos 2020a) and Carolina López-Ruiz’s Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean(2021)—thus offers a rare opportunity for highlighting these shifting interests and emerging intellectual trends.
Link - https://journal.equinoxpub.com/JMA/article/view/27855
Scroll down to the end of the bibliography for the advance access pdf.
Regards,
Pete
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