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This article aims to integrate a gender perspective in the social analysis of the Tartessian worlds through the study of different funerary contexts. The study focuses on certain funerary manifestations related to collective consumption... more
This article aims to integrate a gender perspective in the social analysis of the Tartessian worlds through the study of different funerary contexts. The study focuses on certain funerary manifestations related to collective consumption practices that represent both participation in this
type of act and its sponsorship. It contemplates two of the most relevant practices in these feasts and ceremonies, such as drinking of alcoholic beverages, and animal sacrifice and consumption of meat. To this end, it studies the distribution in the tombs of some of the Tartessian cemeteries of
cups and drinking equipment, meat remains and instruments used for animal sacrifice and dismemberment, according with the sex and age of the human bodies with which they were deposited.
The human populations that lived in the area around the Emporitan palaeoestuary during the Iron Age have his- torically been marginalized and reduced to supporting roles in history. Archaeological studies have placed too much atten- tion... more
The human populations that lived in the area around the Emporitan palaeoestuary during the Iron Age have his- torically been marginalized and reduced to supporting roles in history. Archaeological studies have placed too much atten- tion on their crops and methods of food surplus storage as a result of the emphasis placed on their function as providers. A number of archaeological interventions made in large areas of Muntanya Rodona, Vilanera, and Les Corts have produced new evidence that has allowed us to construct a richer and more complex picture of the dynamics that the rural landscapes in the Emporion area experienced during the first millennium BC. The data acquired indicate some first ideas that, while tentative, allow us to move beyond the too simple approach focused on the concepts of chora and territorial hierarchy that have his- torically dominated the perception of the research of these contexts. The long-term transformation processes in this region are also examined in this paper, along with the changes and continuities that impacted the occupation and exploitation tactics used by diverse human groups established in the area.
This paper examines several craft production activities that were undertaken in domestic contexts in far western Phoenician settings. An analysis of the distribution of artefacts and waste related with craft production activities reveals... more
This paper examines several craft production activities that were undertaken in domestic contexts in far western Phoenician settings. An analysis of the distribution of artefacts and waste related with craft production activities reveals that these productive activities were not spatially segregated from care-giving practices. On the contrary, these two kinds of practices often took place in the same settings. The study emphasises the relevance of collaborative domestic economies in these historical contexts-contexts in which the limits between "the domestic" and "the productive" appear to have been enormously fluid. The study's conclusions undermine long-held traditional narratives that imagine a clear-cut separation between the productive sphere-"primarily" associated with men-and the private, domestic sphere-considered to be "essentially" feminine. In this way, the study demonstrates the daily life of these communities was characterised by an entanglement between the spaces, practices, material cultures and agents related to craft production activities and those related to care-giving activities. The flexibility and fluidity of these settings is especially apparent in non-elite domestic groups.
This paper analyses the ceramic assemblages in several stratigraphic units from domestic contexts or dumps related to everyday activities in the Neápolis of Emporion, dating ca. 425 to 375 bc. The main aim of the study is to examine the... more
This paper analyses the ceramic assemblages in several stratigraphic units from domestic contexts or dumps related to everyday activities in the Neápolis of Emporion, dating ca. 425 to 375 bc. The main aim of the study is to examine the domestic ceramic assemblages –kitchen ceramics, tableware and domestic storage– and to analyse them focusing on their manufacturing traditions and their use in daily practices. The results of this study show the existence of strong cultural entanglements. This invites us to reject traditional interpretations, largely based on written classical sources, that have argued for the occurrence of a strict dual division in the enclave along ethnic lines, with two neatly segregated communities that never overlapped in this urban landscape. This study argues against the simplistic use of material culture as an ethnic marker, emphasising instead the role of some daily-use objects in the construction of social distinction, as well as other social, intersectional identities that go beyond ethnicity.
Key words: mixed communities; Greek overseas settlements; daily practices; consumption practices; culinary traditions; social identities; cultural contact.
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En los inicios del I milenio a.C. las culturas materiales de las comunidades del Sudoeste peninsular experimentan cambios notables y expresan de forma visible un incremento de las conexiones y de los contactos mediterráneos.... more
En los inicios del I milenio a.C. las culturas materiales de las comunidades del Sudoeste peninsular experimentan
cambios notables y expresan de forma visible un incremento de las conexiones y de los contactos mediterráneos.
Tradicionalmente esas transformaciones se han interpretado como el resultado de una difusión cultural o de la implantación en la región de un nuevo grupo étnico de origen oriental, cuyas gentes serían no sólo los productores,
sino también los usuarios de esas culturas materiales. Las dos perspectivas hunden sus raíces en los principios de la arqueología histórico-cultural, en especial en un concepto de cultura hoy absolutamente cuestionado por su esencialismo y su ahistoricidad. Las nuevas perspectivas de la arqueología del contacto cultural, y, principalmente, las arqueologías poscoloniales proponen formas de entender la transformación de la cultura material desde perspectivas
no esencialistas que reclaman al mismo tiempo miradas globales y la atención a contextos locales. Estas nuevas perspectivas permiten releer las transformaciones en las culturas materiales de los centros ceremoniales del Sudoeste peninsular que han capitalizado el interés de la arqueología tartésica y fenicia en la última década.
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In Western Phoenician settlements, foods, culinary traditions and material culture related to preparation and food and drinks consumption offer us a picture of colonial communities characterized by an important social and cultural... more
In Western Phoenician settlements, foods, culinary traditions and material culture related to preparation and food and drinks consumption offer us a picture of colonial communities
characterized by an important social and cultural heterogeneity. This picture contrasts with the representation constructed by the colonial elite by means of funerary rituals and commensality
practices that were carried out next to their ancestors’ graves. In these ritual and social acts food, tableware used in these acts and consumption’s ways fade the social and ethnic heterogeneity of every day, because through this discourse is naturalized Phoenician domination and hegemony in these colonial spaces.
Research on everyday life in Mediterranean colonial contexts and, particularly, the analysis of domestic space has enabled us to question the traditional colonial discourse. This has been preoccupied with the supposed duality between... more
Research on everyday life in Mediterranean colonial contexts and, particularly, the analysis of domestic space has enabled us to question the traditional colonial discourse. This has been preoccupied with the supposed duality between colonists and colonized, ethnic and cultural homogeneity and, especially, the exclusivity of adult male representation in colonial archaeology. In this paper we present an analysis of funerary spaces in Phoenician colonies focusing on the male- female relations and the dominant sexual politics as observed in each colonial context.
The Phoenician settlements of Cerro del Villar (south of Spain) and Mozia (Sicily) constitute two appropriate settings to analyze the processes of formation of new identities in the western Phoenician colonial areas. The material culture... more
The Phoenician settlements of Cerro del Villar (south of Spain) and Mozia (Sicily) constitute two appropriate settings to analyze the processes of formation of new identities in the western Phoenician colonial areas. The material culture of these
settlements, founded during the 8th century B.C.E., express the coexistence of Phoenicians with various western Mediterranean populations. The present study analyzes how the inhabitants of these colonies consciously used their material culture to construct new identities. Architecture, technological
innovation, ritual and tableware for the service of food and drinks show a formal homogeneity that expresses links with the metropolis and with other Phoenician Mediterranean settlements. All these elements are highly visible and public, which contrasts with the presence of material elements of local cultures or hybrids in the domestic sphere, or in workshops associated with handcrafted processes already known
by the local groups. Architecture, technology, ritual and tableware were all used actively in the construction of new identities in these settlements. These new identities
go beyond ethnicity and are the expression of social and political negotiations within colonial spaces.
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Culinary technologies and domestic contexts have been one of the spaces traditionally silenced by Phoenician archaeology. This lack of interest for domestic and familiar contexts has nourished discourses that highlight the cultural and... more
Culinary technologies and domestic contexts have been one of the spaces traditionally silenced by Phoenician archaeology. This lack of interest for domestic and familiar contexts has nourished discourses that highlight the cultural and ethnic homogeneity of these settings, as well as the male prominence and that of the social groups belonging to the commercial or productive elite. The focus in these domestic spaces, in the
culinary technologies and in the daily foods, gives us a different story about these colonial communities. It offers to us a more dynamic perspective,letting us to view communities socially and culturally more heterogeneous, and at the same time to retrieve the agency of subaltern social groups in the construction of colonial histories.
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Cultural encounters form a dominant theme in the study of Iron Age Europe. This was particularly acute in regions where urbanising Mediterranean civilisations came into contact with ‘barbarian’ worlds. This volume presents preliminary... more
Cultural encounters form a dominant theme in the study of Iron Age Europe. This was particularly acute in regions where urbanising Mediterranean civilisations came into contact with ‘barbarian’ worlds. This volume presents preliminary work from the ENTRANS Project, which explores the nature and impact of such encounters in south-east Europe, alongside a series of papers on analogous European regions. A range of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches are offered in an effort to promote dialogue around these central issues in European protohistory.
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The Research Group in Mediterranean Archaeology: Connections, Materialities and Writing (GRACME) at the Pompeu Fabra University is delighted to announce the GRACME Seminar of Social Archaeology 2022 “Excavating Emotions: Challenges and... more
The Research Group in Mediterranean Archaeology: Connections, Materialities and Writing (GRACME) at the Pompeu Fabra University is delighted to announce the GRACME Seminar of Social Archaeology 2022 “Excavating Emotions: Challenges and Perspectives in Archaeology”. The second meeting “Las Emociones Más Allá de la Arqueología: un Enfoque Interdisciplinar” will take place in a hybrid form on 6 July 2022. Participants will be able to join online or attend in person at the Ciutadella campus (Aula 40.113).

For further information please email Adriano Orsingher (adriano.orsingher@upf.edu), Ana Delgado Hervás (ana.delgado@upf.edu) or GRACME (gracme@upf.edu).
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Material cultures and daily practices play a central role in the invention and (re)production of identities, politics and economics in the context of historical experiences of migration and displacement. Following this premise, the aim of... more
Material cultures and daily practices play a central role in the invention and (re)production of identities, politics and economics in the context of historical experiences of migration and displacement. Following this premise, the aim of this session is to analyze daily practices and materialities, especially those related to food –the way of cooking and food preparation as well as its consumption-, in the construction, manipulation and negotiation of social identities, power relations and economies of production and exchange in different Mediterranean colonial contexts. Through different study-cases, this session wants to explore the continuities, innovations and/or hybridations experimented by several Mediterranean communities between 8 th and 4 th centuries BC, relating them with the economic, political and social dynamics occurred in their specific contexts, the construction of new foodscapes as well as their local and global networks.
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III JORNADES D'ARQUEOLOGIA DE L'IUHJVV-UPF Coordinació: Ana Delgado i Samuel Sardà 12 de desembre 2014 Menjar i beure a la Mediterrània occidental: gastronomies, pràctiques de consum i identitats socials a l'Edat... more
III JORNADES D'ARQUEOLOGIA DE L'IUHJVV-UPF

Coordinació:  Ana Delgado i Samuel Sardà

 

12 de desembre 2014



Menjar i beure a la Mediterrània occidental: gastronomies, pràctiques de consum i identitats socials a l'Edat del Ferro

L'estudi arqueològic de les pràctiques alimentàries s'ha convertit en via d'entrada d'algunes de les propostes interpretatives més renovadores i actuals per a l'anàlisi de l'Edat del Ferro: connexions, hibridació, comunitats, identitats socials, relacions de gènere, estratègies de poder, etc. Aquestes noves perspectives s'han centrat essencialment en els contextos i les cultures materials, i en l'actualitat s'han incorporat també els estudis bioarqueològics que permeten encarar amb nous reptes i objectius aquestes perspectives socials. El present seminari de recerca focalitza el seu interès en l'àmbit de la Mediterrània centre-occidental, un espai on conflueixen i conviuen comunitats d'orígens i backgrounds culturals diferents (fenicis i púnics, grecs i diverses poblacions indígenes).



Comer y beber en el Mediterráneo occidental: gastronomías, prácticas de consumo e identidades sociales en la Edad del Hierro

El estudio arqueológico de las prácticas alimentarias se ha convertido en vía de entrada de algunas de las propuestas interpretativas más renovadoras y actuales para el análisis de la Edad del Hierro: conexiones, hibridación, comunidades, identidades sociales, relaciones de género, estrategias de poder, etc. Estas nuevas perspectivas se han centrado esencialmente en los contextos y las culturas materiales, aunque en la actualidad se han incorporado también los estudios bioarqueoloógicos que permiten afrontar con nuevos retos y objetivos estas perspectivas sociales. El presente seminario de investigación focaliza su interés en el ámbito del Mediterráneo centro-occidental, un espacio donde confluyen y conviven gentes de orígenes y backgrounds culturales diferentes (fenicios y púnicos, griegos y diverses poblaciones indígenas).



PROGRAMA

Inauguració de les Jornades: 9:15-9:30

Sessió 1: Pràctiques de consum en espais de poder: connexions, hibridacions i distincions

 

9:30-10:00. Il banchetto alla periferia della polis greca: palazzi di età arcaica in Magna Grecia

Massimo Osanna (Università degli Studi della Basilicata/ Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Pompei, Ercolano e Stabia) 

10:00-10:30. Menjar i beure a la residència fortificada de Sant Jaume (Alcanar, Montsià): consum quotidià i estratègies de poder a la primera edat del ferro

Laia Font (Universitat de Barcelona), David Garcia i Rubert (Universitat de Barcelona), Marta Mateu (Universitat de Barcelona), Isabel Moreno (Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya), Carme Saorín (Universitat de Barcelona) i Samuel Sardà (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) 

Pausa: Cafè



Sessió 2: Gastronomies de contacte en comunitats diaspòriques



11:00-11:30. Cocinas cotidianas y ágapes excepcionales en una comunidad multicultural: un estudio de la Neápolis de Empúries (s.V-IV a.C.)

Ana Delgado (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Meritxell Ferrer (Stanford University) i Samuel Sardà (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

11:30-12:00. El consum de carn a Empúries al segle VI aC: diferències i similituds amb el món ibèric a Catalunya

Silvia Valenzuela Lamas (University of Sheffield) i Lua Valenzuela Suau (Universitat de les Illes Balears)

12:00-12:30. Pràctiques alimentàries a l'Eivissa púnica (ss. V-II aC): cultura material i contextos

Alícia Vendrell (Universitat de València)

12:30-13:00. Persistenze culturali e innovazioni nell'Età del Ferro della Sardegna sud-occidentale: Sulky e Monte Sirai

Michele Guirguis (Università degli Studi di Sassari) i Rosana Pla (Università degli Studi di Sassari).

Debat : 13:00-13:30

Pausa: Dinar



Sessió 3: Cuines quotidianes, contactes culturals i identitats socials: perspectives des del món local

 

15:30-16:00. Ceramica e pratiche alimentari nelle società indigene e greche in Magna Grecia in età arcaica

Alessandro Quercia. (Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici del Piemonte e del Museo Antichità Egizie).

16:00- 16:30. Pràctiques socials, consum i identitats ètniques a través dels conjunts ceràmics del nucli del Mas Castellar de Pontós (Segles VI-III aC.)

David Asensio (UB/ UAB/ MónIberRocs SL), Enriqueta Pons (Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya), Rafel Jornet (MónIberRocs SL), Jordi Morer (MónIberRocs SL)

Pausa: Cafè

17:00-17:30. Espai domèstic i pràctiques alimentàries en el món ibèric septentrional

Carme Belarte (ICREA/Institut Català d'Arqueologia Clàssica) i Pilar Camañes (Institut Català d'Arqueologia Clàssica)

17:30-18:00. Venter praecepta non audit? Dinàmiques de consum en transició a la Hispània Citerior tardorepublicana

Jordi Principal (Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya).

Debat: 18:00-18:30

Clausura de les Jornades
Colonial and Imperial contexts are especially dynamic arenas generative of new subsistence environments, cuisines, and foodways. Born of multiple and fragmentary experiences of migration and displacement that remain entangled in broader... more
Colonial and Imperial contexts are especially dynamic arenas generative of new subsistence environments, cuisines, and foodways. Born of multiple and fragmentary experiences of migration and displacement that remain entangled in broader scale networks and relations, these contexts were particularly active in the production of new and/or expanded " Foodscapes. " Foodscape, a term derived from Appadurai's concept of " scapes, " is defined as the physical, social and cultural spaces and processes that mediate the interactions between people, food, technology, values and material culture related to subsistence and eating. This concept highlights how culinary communities, and communities of consumption, including the social and material environments they are embedded in, emerge and are transformed in a dynamic, and fluid manner, albeit in particular places/spaces, variably influenced by their " global " connections, and engagements with other places and their foodscapes. This perspective allows for more complicated readings of food, cooking and food environments in colonial contexts, beyond dominant narratives of culinary practice, and consumption as nostalgic identity expression/self-identification practices or as the product of domination (change)/resistance (continuity). This session explores persistence, innovation, transformation and hybridizations of and in food environments, cuisines, and foodways in colonial, imperial and diasporic contexts characterized by their connectivity to other places and the mobility and flows of people, practices, knowledge and material culture between them. This session works from an expansive geographic and temporal perspective that incorporates archaeological case studies from ancient to modern contexts. We invite you to submit abstracts for this Regular Session at the EAA 2018 in Barcelona (5 th-8 th September 2018). Please, submit all abstracts through the conference website (https://www.e-a-a.org/eaa2018).
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Este trabajo analiza las actividades rituales y de culto en el ámbito tartésico desde una perspectiva de género. Define algunas de las prácticas rituales que se realizaban durante ceremonias y actos religiosos y explora la relevancia que... more
Este trabajo analiza las actividades rituales y de culto en el ámbito tartésico desde una perspectiva de género. Define algunas de las prácticas rituales que se realizaban durante ceremonias y actos religiosos y explora la relevancia que pudo tener el género a la hora de definir las personas que lideraron y ejecutaron rituales y actividades de culto en estos ámbitos. El centro de atención lo constituye la cultura material relacionada con la ejecución de estas prácticas, en especial, ciertos objetos litúrgicos o rituales que encontramos depositados en tumbas y espacios funerarios en los mundos tartésicos, un concepto que utilizo aquí en su forma plural para subrayar la diversidad de experiencias, situaciones y procesos que atravesaron las gentes y territorios del sur y sudoeste de Iberia entre los siglos IX y V a.C.
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Promovido por el Conjunto Arqueológico de los Dólmenes de Antequera (Consejería de Cultura de la Junta de Andalucía), como parte del “Memorial Luis Siret“, en septiembre de 2010 se celebró en Antequera (Málaga) el Primer Congreso de... more
Promovido por el Conjunto Arqueológico de los Dólmenes de Antequera (Consejería de Cultura de la Junta de Andalucía), como parte del “Memorial Luis Siret“, en septiembre de 2010 se celebró en Antequera (Málaga) el Primer Congreso de Prehistoria de Andalucía, bajo el lema “La Tutela del Patrimonio Prehistórico”. De forma expresa, esta reunión invocaba en su génesis la que se celebrara en junio de 1984 en la localidad de Cuevas del Almanzora (Almería) bajo el título “Homenaje a Luis Siret (1934-1984)” y que suele ser considerada el hito que marcó el inicio de una nueva era en la gestión del patrimonio arqueológico andaluz, bajo el signo del gobierno autonómico.
Promoted by the Dolmens of Antequera Archaeological Site as part of the “Memorial Luis Siret” the First Congress of Andalusian Prehistory was held in Antequera, Malaga in September, 2010  with the theme “The Protection of Prehistoric Heritage”. This was inspired  y its predecessor, “Homage to Luis Siret (1934-1984)” which took place in Cuevas del Almanzora (Almería) in June, 1984 and is often considered the turning point of a new era of Andalusia’s archaeological heritage management under it Autonomous Government.
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Estas jornadas de trabajo se orientan a compartir reflexiones que surgen de la investigación arqueológica sobre el pasado de las mujeres.