The Phoenician-Punic West
Early Punic findings of 8th century B.C. in Carthage (Tunisia) | © F. Schön
Subproject:
B 05 Colonization? Imperialism? Provincialization? Resources between conflict and integration in the Phoenician-Punic West of the 1st millennium B.C.
Project leadership:
Prof. Dr. Thomas Schäfer
Staff:
Dr. Frerich Schön, Hanni Töpfer
Region:
western Mediterranean area
What significance did resources have in the context of Phoenician ‘colonization’?
The subproject ‘Colonization? Imperialism? Provincialization? Resources between Conflict and Integration in the Phoenician-Punic West of the 1st millennium B.C.’ deals with a geographical area which together with North Africa, Malta, Sicily, Sardinia and the Iberian Peninsula, covers a large part of the western Mediterranean region and the bordering Atlantic coast. The period reaches from the 10th to the 5th century B.C. Within this scope, the socio-cultural dynamics influenced by the Phoenicians spread from the Levant in the eastern Mediterranean to the West and the role played by resources in this were investigated. To that end, settlement and landscape archaeological sources of the West Phoenician settlements will be analyzed.