ENTANGLED WORLDS: MATERIALITY, ARCHAEOMETRY AND MEDITERRANEAN-ATLANTIC IDENTITIES IN WESTERN IBERIA

The aim of this paper is to gain insights into the mechanisms by which new socio-materialities were co-created in western Iberia as a result of encounters between people of Atlantic and Mediterranean cultural and technological backgrounds during the Late Bronze Age (1400/1200-700 BC). Particular emphasis is placed on the landscapes where socio-cultural encounters took place and where material images, artefacts and technologies were hybridised, integrated or recreated. To do this, typology and archaeometry information is taken into consideration. The material evidence analysed comprises specific objects such as gold items, bronze axes, statue-menhirs and stelae, which sheds light on the ways in which the social identity of the Atlantic people shifted or was altered through these encounters, and to what extent the people adopted and adapted socio-material practices within a shared cultural milieu.