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Book SynopsisTwelve essays, written by various scholars and originally published in Spanish, explore the ways in which Phoenician colonization of the Iberian Peninsula was a function of Assyrian westward expansion. Selected articles include: The Phoenician Settlement of the 8th Century B.C. in Morro de Mezquitilla (Algarrobo, Malaga) by H. Schubart, Phoenician Trade in the West: Balance and Perspectives by M.E. Aubet Semmler, and The Ancient Colonization of Ibiza: Mechanisms and Process by J. Ramon.
Trade ReviewReviewer::Carolina Anzar Harvard Univ Mass USA This book is a useful assemblage of articles and the first book for some time in Englsih on phoenician expansion in Spain. A useful tool for those in Mediterrean history and studies. Catholic Bible Quartly No 67 2005
Table of ContentsThe Phoenician Settlement of the 8th Century B.C. in Morro de Mezquitilla (Algarrobo, Malaga) - H. Schubart
The Phoenician Settlement at Toscanos: Urbanization and Function - H.G. Niemeyer
Phoenician and Punic Sexi - M. Pellicer Catalán
Notes on the Economy of the Phoenician Settlements in Southern Spain - M.E. Semmler
Phoenician Trade in the West: Balance and Perspectives - M.E. Aubet Semmler
La Fonteta: A Phoenician City in the Far West - A. Gonzalez Prats, A. Garcia Menarguea and E. Ruiz Segura
The Ancient Colonization of Ibiza: Mechanisms and Process - J. Ramon
The Ancient Phoenicians of the 8th and 7th Centuries B.C. in the Bay of Cadiz: State of the Research - D. Ruiz Mata
Some Questions Regarding the Tartessian Orientalizing Period - M.E. Aubet Semmler
The Phoenician Impact on Tartessos: Spheres of Interaction - M.E. Aubet Semmler
The Tartessian Economy: Mining and Metallurgy - J. Fernandez Jurado
The Beginnings of the Phoenician Presence in Southwestern Andalusia - D. Ruiz Mata
