THE ROUTE OF THE TIN: GADIR AND THE PHOENICIAN TRADE IN THE NORTHWEST OF IBERIA (4th – 2nd CENTURIES BC)

Abstract

Mediterranean trade with the communities of Northwest Iberia is a
historical phenomenon that has received some attention from academics only in the past two decades, despite the relatively frequent findings of products of Mediterranean origin or from the area of the Strait of Gibraltar in contexts of the Late Iron Age. Recently, the “La Ruta de las Estrimnides”. Mediterranean trade and interculturality in the northwest of Iberia (HAR2015-68310-P) Research Project aimed to systematically study these southern materials in order to include them in a spatial and temporal context, as well as in an economic and commercial structure: navigation routes, scales, rhythms and frequency of travel, products that circulated in both directions and, above all, control mechanisms and power groups, direct or indirect, involved in this movement of people, products and ideas.