Rural Landscapes of the Punic World

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 Gomez 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). Carlos Gomez Bellard teaches in the Department of Prehistory and Archaeology of the University of Valencia (Spain). He has long been interested in the organization of agricultural production and rural settlement in Phoenician and Punic Ibiza. He has excavated and surveyed extensively in Ibiza and Mediterranean Spain.

• 1 Defining the Punic World and its Rural Contexts 2 Rereading Punic Agriculture: Representation, Analogy and Ideology in the Classical Sources Veronique Krings 3 Ibiza: the Making of New Landscapes Carlos Gomez Bellard 4 The Iberian Peninsula: Landscapes of Tradition Jose Luis Lopez Castro 5 North Africa: Rural Settlement and Agricultural Production Elizabeth Fentress and Roald F. Docter 6 Sicily and Malta: between Sea and Countryside Antonella Spano Giammellaro, Francesca Spatafora and Peter van Dommelen 7 Sardinia: Diverging Landscapes Peter van Dommelen and Stefano Finocchi 8 Agrarian Landscapes and Rural Communities 9 Conclusions: Rural Landscapes of the Punic World

'This volume contributes not only to our understanding of the Punic world it but also enriches the facts concerning the Western Mediterranean, without taking into account the fact that the method represents a potential model for other regions, Phoenicia, for example. Its principle advantage is an original approach from all types of sources. Because it isn't simple a compilation of prior research, existing sources and a summary of searches or surveys, the collective work brings a major and quality contribution to our best understanding of ancient rural life, Punic in particular.' English translation of review in French by Elodie Guillon, Universite de Toulouse, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009.12.09 'If we assess the information contained in this volume, our opinions must be highly positive, as the relevant and necessary aims set by the editors have been broadly achieved. Readers will find new, interesting and well documented information within a coherent structure. It is, without doubt, an obligatory reference book for anyone who wants to approach the Punic strategy for agricultural production from an international perspective.' Teresa Chapa Brunet, Complutense University, Madrid, European Journal of Archaeology, 14.2, 2011