Content:
Iberian kingdoms created vast colonial empires between the 15th and the 18th centuries, based upon maritime and commercial dynamics but also with the component of territorial occupation. Portuguese established settlements in the Atlantic islands, created the Brazilian colony and settled in parcels of land in both African and Asian continents. Likewise, Spaniards established themselves in the North of Africa, several Caribbean islands and in broaden spaces in America, along with settlements in Asia and the Pacific.
This symposium intends to analyze first globalization processes occurred by settlement processes, territorial occupation and technological change at the Portuguese and Spanish colonial empires throughout the archaeological record. In this regard, research focusing on urban spaces, rural structures or material culture from Iberian colonial period showing case-studies with strong interpretative and comparative perspectives are considered.
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)