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Networks of Commerce and Knowledge in the Iron Age: The Case of the Phoenicians

2007; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 22; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/09518960701539232

1743-940X

Michael Sommer,

Culture, Economy, and Development Studies

Abstract Regarding the Phoenicians' expansion in the Iron Age, controversy continues over chronology, areas affected, scale of migration, organization of trade, modes of interaction between Phoenician traders/colonists and the respective indigenous populations and means of maintaining contact and of transmitting information between ‘colonial’ settlements and the mother cities in the Levant. Critical problems arise from the textual evidence from the Phoenicians' neighbours; the archaeological material is also ambiguous regarding the ethnic and cultural identities of the populations involved. The paper uses available evidence to construct a model of how a diasporic network of commodity, population and information exchange could arise and be maintained in the power vacuum of the Early Iron Age Mediterranean, how it was adapted to political and economic change, so as to provide a tertium comparationis to the Greek model of ‘colonization’. Keywords: PhoeniciansLong-distance TradeColoniesMediterranean Acknowledgements This is the revised version of my conference paper. I am very grateful to Hans Georg Niemeyer for his critical reading and detailed discussion of the archaeology of the Phoenician expansion in the west. This study owes a great deal to his recent work. I am also thankful to Christy Constantakopoulou and Katerina Panagopoulou for the splendid organization of a conference which opened up a wealth of thoughts and information of which I was barely aware. Notes [1] August. Epist. 13. [2] Referring perhaps to the colour red and the artisanship of purple dyeing. In the Hebrew bible, Canaan is the son of Ham and the father of Sidon (Genesis 9:18; 10:15). [3] Heliod. 10.323. For additional information on the author and his work Nesselrath Nesselrath, Heinz-Günther. 1997. “Heliodor”. In Lexikon antiker Autoren, Edited by: Schütze, Oliver. Stuttgart and Weimer: J.B. Metzler. [Google Scholar], ‘Heliodor’. 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