Abstract book ISBN:
978-80-907270-3-8 (EuropeanAssociation of Archaeologists); 978-84-9168-140-3 (Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona, vol. 1); 978-84-9168-143-4 (Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona, vol. 2)
Content:
The role played by the Punic colonial power in shaping Postalayotic society is still controversial. Since the arrival of the Phoenicians in Ibiza, the contacts between the communities that inhabited the neighboring islands have had a variable character, oscillating between an apparent isolation or resistance in the first place, to a later immersion in the commercial area directed from the Punic city of Ybshm/Ebusus. In any case, towards the middle of the 6th century a.C., an important social fracture is detected in which undoubtedly the Punic colonial interests were an accelerator. Within the framework of these profound socio-economic changes that took place in Mallorca and Menorca, encompassed by the Postalayotic period (550-123 BC), the structure of society was also affected at its foundations: domestic groups and their relationships, especially in terms of gender.
The domestic and funerary materiality, supported by some written testimonies available in classical sources, are the basis for understanding the gender and their interrelations in the Balearic postalayotic. The transcendental role played by women in the organization and structure of the group, as well as in its socialization, especially in childhood, will be observed. Men, on the other hand, will consolidate as fundamental pieces in the bosom of incipient patriarchal groups. To this panorama will be added the direct consequences of the Punic colonial contact, which will bring the arrival of foreign population to the islands and also the systematic exit of a segment of the community to integrate the Punic army. Likewise, the gender relations established in the Punic orbit will be decisive in order to end up strengthening the changes initiated in these island societies and his daily life.