The long and winding road

Object biographies and cultural encounters in the Western Mediterranean during the Late Iron Age

Bibliographic Data

ID2640774
AuthorsLaura Perelló Mateo (0000-0002-0590-0687, Universitat de les Illes Balears, corresponding author), Bartomeu Llull Estarellas (0000-0002-7328-4193, Universitat de les Illes Balears), Daniel J Albero Santacreu (0000-0002-2438-8965, Universitat de les Illes Balears), Daniel Albero Santacreu, Jaume García Rosselló (0000-0001-9771-6192, Universitat de les Illes Balears), Manuel Calvo Trías (0000-0001-7792-7478, Universitat de les Illes Balears)
Year2024
Volume51
Pages558-579
Publication date2024-10-18
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDocumenta Praehistorica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1408-967X • E-ISSN: 1854-2492
PublisherUniversity of Ljubljana (PUBLISHER • SI)
DOI10.4312/dp.51.5
OpenAlexW4400281925
LanguageEN
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In this paper we address the biography of a set of copper nails recovered in 1998 from a Late Iron Age structure located at the archaeological site of Puig de Sa Morisca (Mallorca, Spain). The archaeometric and typological analyses conducted on these nails allowed us to relate them to nautical technology, as well as to approach the origin of the raw materials and the production processes involved in their manufacture. The biographical information obtained from these studies has been crucial to address the extensive mobility of these copper nails through the Western Mediterranean during the Iron Age, as well as to approach their fluid nature and association with different communities of practice, assemblages and appropriation phenomena

Appropriation · Archaeology · Geography · Iron Age · Mediterranean climate · Archaeological and Historical Studies · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · History · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology

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