Edited by Michael Dietler and Carolina López-Ruiz. Part I Theoretical Issues and Frameworks 1 Colonial Encounters in Iberia and the Western Mediterranean: An Exploratory Framework Michael Dietler 2 Colonial Relations and Social Change in Iberia (Seventh to Third Centuries BC) Joan Sanmartí Part II New Perspectives on Phoenician and Greek Ventures on the Mediterranean and Atlantic Coasts 3 Colonial Contacts and Protohistoric Indigenous Urbanism on the Mediterranean Coast of the Iberian Peninsula Maria Carme Belarte 4 Phoenician Colonization on the Atlantic Coast of the Iberian Peninsula Ana Margarida Arruda 5 Greeks and the Iberian Peninsula: Forms of Exchange and Settlements Pierre Rouillard Part III Plant Resources, Agrarian Practices, and the Colonial Political Economy 6 Botanical and Archaeological Dimensions of the Colonial Encounter Ramon Buxó 7 Lumbermen and Shipwrights: Phoenicians on the Mediterranean Coast of Southern Spain Brigitte Treuman Part IV The Question of Tartessos: A Debate Reframed 8 Phoenicians in Tartessos María Belén Deamos 9 Precolonization and Colonization in the Interior of Tartessos Sebastián Celestino Pérez Part V Interrogating Colonial Texts and Imagined Landscapes 10 Tarshish and Tartessos Revisited: Textual Problems and Historical Implications Carolina López-Ruiz 11 Iberia in the Greek Geographical Imagination Javier Gómez Espelosín Colonial Encounters in Ancient Iberia: A Coda Michael Dietler and Carolina López-Ruiz List of Contributors Index