a1 Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol, 43 Woodland Road, Bristol, BS8 1UU, UK; Email: t.hodos@bristol.ac.uk
Abstract
The application of globalization theory to colonial contexts in recent years has emphasized articulations of the colonized and the colonizers. For the Mediterranean Iron Age, focus has been upon expressions of local (colonized) identities, and of regional variabilities of the overseas Greeks and Phoenicians; any attention to the engagements that the Greeks and Phoenicians had with one another during this time has been solely contrapositive in the framing of arguments. The present study examines the background to this circumstance before addressing specifically the engagement between these global cultures on a Mediterranean-wide scale during the period of their overseas foundations. Regarded from the perspective of a globalization framework, the common sets of practices and shared bodies of knowledge reveal a deep complexity of intercultural contact during the Iron Age, reminding us that cultures should never be considered in isolation.
(Received July 29 2008)
(Accepted November 11 2008)
(Revised February 10 2009)
Tamar Hodos is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol. She is the author of Local Responses to Colonization in the Iron Age Mediterranean (London: Routledge, 2006) and co-editor (with S. Hales) of Material Culture and Social Identity in the Ancient World (Cambridge: CUP, 2009).