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Archaeologies of Colonialism: Consumption, Entanglement, and Violence in Ancient Mediterranean France

Michael Dietler

Print publication date: 2010

Print ISBN-13: 9780520265516

Published to California Scholarship Online: March 2012

DOI: 10.1525/california/9780520265516.001.0001

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Social, Cultural, and Political Landscapes

Social, Cultural, and Political Landscapes

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(p.75) 4 Social, Cultural, and Political Landscapes
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Archaeologies of Colonialism
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Michael Dietler

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University of California Press
DOI:10.1525/california/9780520265516.003.0004

When traders peddling Etruscan goods first anchored their small ships along the shores of southern France in the late seventh century B.C.E., they encountered a diverse and dynamic world of indigenous peoples whose languages and customs they did not understand. A few decades later, colonists from a Phocaean homeland at the other end of the Mediterranean claimed a space on the north shore of a small harbor on the rugged Provençal coast and began to build homes within the tiny and precarious new settlement of Massalia. Over time, various forms of economic, social, and political entanglements and transformations of culture, consciousness, and identity far exceeded anything imagined at the beginning. Recent archaeological data indicate that Mediterranean France had been undergoing a gradual process of differentiation in microregional material culture patterns since the Late Bronze Age. One other obvious question raised by the tale of the foundation of Massalia is the degree of intermarriage between Massalians and local peoples, or of other forms of gender relations between colonists and native peoples.

Keywords:   Massalia, indigenous peoples, Mediterranean France, culture, consciousness, identity, material culture, gender relations, intermarriage, colonists

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