Formas de ocupación del territorio durante los primeros siglos del I Milenio A.C.el suroeste como marco de definición y contrastación

Abstract

The generalised changes in material culture through the pre-Phoenician archaeological period in the Southwest of the Iberian Peninsula had been corelated with local resource exploitation patterns and the evidence of extrapeninsular sea contacts either with Atlantic or Mediterranean merchants. According with the explaining data, the newly evolved societal patterns were based on the use of local resources and on an economical diversification that confirms its social complexity, but related to available resources and the possibility to incorporate local surplus products in the recently created trade circuits, which leads to assume the existence of both conservative and dynamic pre-Phoenicial social groups. More specifically, during the classical local Late Bronze Age, the axis represented by the walled sites complex of Aznalcóllar, Niebla and Huelva, together with some other smaller sites depending on them, became firstly a singular model of production that was able to meet the demand for copper, bronze and silver of synchronic sites on the Guadalquivir basin, and heceforth that of Phoenician merchants.