Rural Landscapes of the Punic World - (Volume 11) - Peter van Dommelen
Agrarian Landscapes and Rural Communities
Rural Landscapes of the Punic World - (Volume 11) - Peter van Dommelen
Peter van Dommelen [+]
Brown University
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Peter van Dommelen is Joukowsky Family Professor in Archaeology and Professor of Anthropology at Brown University. His research focuses on the western Mediterranean and the Phoenician-Punic world, with a particular interest in colonialism and culture contact as well as rural life and landscape, both past and present. He is actively involved in fieldwork and ceramic studies in Sardinia and Mediterranean Spain and his most recent books are, with Carlos Gómez Bellard, Rural Landscapes of the Punic World, Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology 11 (London: Equinox, 2008) and, co-edited with A. Bernard Knapp, Material Connections in the Ancient Mediterranean (London: Routledge, 2010).
Description
This chapter provides a comparative discussion of Punic rural settlement in its wider western Mediterranean context. It discusses similarities and differences in the archaeological evidence and settlement patterns of the Punic regions. Moreover, it considers the agrarian background of rural settlement in order to gain an insight into the agrarian and regional organisation of the rural landscapes. The involvement of Carthaginian colonial expansion in these processes is further analyzed, as well as the social realities of peasant life and agrarian production in the Punic world.