B 05
Colonisation? Imperialism? Provincialisation? – Resources between Conflict and Integration in the Phoenician-Punic West in the 1st Millennium BC
Academic Disciplines
Classical Archaeology
Project Investigator
Postdoc
The project investigates socio-cultural dynamics triggered by the Phoenician expansion from the Levant coast into the central and western Mediterranean in the 1st mill. BC. The development of raw material deposits in the west led to the establishment of numerous Phoenician settlements of varying size, quality and longevity. Distinct, locally differentiated complexes developed around mineral and agricultural resources that were interconnected in a pan-Mediterranean maritime network with high connectivity.